- κουροτρόφος
- κουρο-τρόφος, ον,A rearing children, rare in lit. sense,
γυνὴ νεοτόκος καὶ κ. Aret. CA2.3
: usu. metaph., ἀγαθὴ κ. good nursing-mother, of Ithaca, Od. 9.27, cf. Pi.Fr.109;κ. Ἑλλάς E.Tr.566
(lyr., s.v.l.); Ἀπόλλωνος κ., of Delos, Call.Del.2, 276: freq. as epith. of goddesses, as Hecate, Hes.Th.450;Ἄρτεμις D.S.5.73
;Λοχία Supp.Epigr.3.400.9
(Delph., iii B. C.); of the Roman goddess Rumina, Plu.2.278d; esp. of Aphrodite, Hom.Epigr.12; called ἡ K. alone, IG12.840.9, Ar.Th.299, Pl. Com.174.7, Luc.DMeretr.5.1; αἱ πύλαι αἱ κατὰ Κουροτρόφον, at Delos, IG11(2).203A46 (iii B. C.):—in form [full] Κουροτρόπος, ὁ (sc. μήν), name of Acarnanian month, ib.5(1).29.11 ([place name] Sparta).
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