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μητρῷος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μητρῷος

Structure: μητρῳ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: contr. for mhtrw/ios (which occurs in Od.)

Sense

  1. of a mother, a mother's, maternal, a mother's right.
  2. the temple of Cybele

Examples

  • "δαίμονεσ μητρῷοι καὶ πατρῷοι, δέξασθέ με εὐμενεῖσ. (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 16:5)
  • Τῇ δ’ ἑξῆσ συνήδρευεν μὲν Οὐάρόσ τε καὶ ὁ βασιλεύσ, εἰσεκλήθησαν δὲ καὶ οἱ ἀμφοῖν φίλοι καὶ οἱ συγγενεῖσ βασιλέωσ Σαλώμη τε ἡ ἀδελφή, εἶτ’ εἴ τινεσ μηνύσειν ἔμελλον καὶ ὧν βάσανοι γεγόνασιν, δοῦλοί τε μητρῷοι τοῦ Ἀντιπάτρου μικρῷ πρότερον συνειλημμένοι ἢ ’κεῖνον ἥκειν, ἐπιστολὴν φέροντεσ, ἧσ τὸ κεφάλαιον τῶν γεγραμμένων ἦν μὴ ἐπανιέναι ὡσ πάντων τῷ πατρὶ ἡκόντων εἰσ πύστιν, μόνην τε ἂν καταφυγὴν αὐτῷ λείπεσθαι Καίσαρα καὶ σὺν αὐτῇ τὸ μὴ πατρὶ ὑποχείριον γενέσθαι. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 17 114:1)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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