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|lshtext=<b>altrix</b>: īcis, f. [[altor]],<br /><b>I</b> a [[female]] nourisher, cherisher, sustainer ([[mostly]] [[poet]].; cf. [[alumnus]]): Calydonia [[altrix]] [[terra]] exsuperantum virum, Pac. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 18 Müll.: eorum [[eadem]] [[terra]] [[parens]], [[altrix]], [[patria]] dicitur, Cic. Fl. 26; id. Tim. 10: altricem Ulixi, Verg. A. 3, 273.—Without [[terra]]: altricis [[extra]] [[limen]] Apuliae, * Hor. C. 3, 4, 10; so [[once]] in Cic.: Romani nominis, Poët. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 12, 20: Idā altrice relictā ([[since]] Hermaphroditus had been brought up [[there]]), Ov. M. 4, 293: Sanguinis altricem non [[pudet]] esse lupam, * Prop. 5, 1, 38: bellorum bellatorumque virorum, Sil. 1, 218. —Esp., of a [[wet]]-[[nurse]], Ov. M. 11, 683; so Stat. Th. 1, 602; Sil. 2, 1, 96; Sen. Hippol. 251; id. Herc. Oet. 450; Gell. 12, 20.
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{{Gaffiot
|gf=<b>altrīx</b>,¹² īcis, f. ([[altor]]), celle qui nourrit, nourrice : Cic. Fl. 62.
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