μήτρα
ἀναγκαίως δ' ἔχει βίον θερίζειν ὥστε κάρπιμον στάχυν, καὶ τὸν μὲν εἶναι, τὸν δὲ μή → But it is our inevitable lot to harvest life like a fruitful crop, for one of us to live, one not. (Euripides, Hypsipyle fr. 60.94ff.)
English (LSJ)
(B), ἡ, in pl.,
A register of house-property, at Tarsus and Soli, Arist. in POxy.1802.58; sg., = κλῆρος, at Tarsus and Soli, Clitarch. ap.Hsch. (Cf. Skt. mātrā 'measure' and ἐρεσιμήτρη.)
μήτρα (A), Ion. μήτρη, ἡ, (μήτηρ)
A womb, Hp.Prorrh.2.24, Hdt.3.108 (dub.l.), Pl.Ti.91d, etc.: also in pl., Hp.Loc.Hom.47, Vict.1.30, Hdt. l.c.: the cervix including the orifice of the womb, Arist.HA510b14. 2 a swine's matrix, reckoned a great dainty, μήτρας τόμοις Telecl.1.14; μήτραν . . πωλοῦσιν, ἥδιστον κρέας Antiph.220; ὑπὲρ μήτρας . . ἀποθανεῖν Alex.193, cf. Plu.2.733e, Ath.3.96f. 3 metaph., source, origin, D.L.7.46; μῆτραι τῆς ψυχῆς Ph.1.441. II core, heart-wood of trees, Thphr.HP1.6.1. b diseased condition of the wood, 'soft-wood', ib.2.7.3. III queen-wasp, opp. ἐργάται, Arist. HA627b32,al. IV μ. χελωνίων, χελωνίοις, bolts for locks, BGU 1028.20,26 (ii A.D.); μ. θύρας, = repagulum, Gloss.
German (Pape)
[Seite 179] ἡ, die Gebärmutter; ὁ σκύμνος ἐν τῇ μήτρῃ ἐών, Her. 3, 108; τὸ δὲ τέκνον ἐν τῇσι μήτρῃσι πλάσσεται, ibd.; vgl. Plat. Tim. 91 b; Sp., περὶ τῆς ἐν τῇ μήτρᾳ τῶν ἐμβρύων πλαστικῆς, Luc. Vit. auct. 26. – Als Speise, s. Ath. III c. 51. – Bei Arist. H. A. 9, 41 eine Art Wespen. – Bei Theophr. Kern oder Mark der Bäume.
