τήθη: Difference between revisions

|Definition=(sts. written [[τηθή]]; the Ion. voc. [[τῆθα]], Sch.<span class="bibl">Il.3.130</span>, prob. belongs to this word), ἡ, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[grandmother]], <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ach.</span>49</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Lys.</span>549</span>, <span class="bibl">And.1.128</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>461d</span>, <span class="bibl">Is.3.23</span>, <span class="title">IG</span>22.1534.229, <span class="bibl">D.57.20</span> ([[varia lectio|v.l.]] [[τιτθῆς]], [[-ῇ]]), <span class="bibl">Men.532.4</span> ([[τιθή]] codd.), Hierocl.<span class="bibl">p.61</span> A. ([[τιτθαί]], [[τίθαι]], [[τίτθαι]] codd.), <span class="bibl">Lib.<span class="title">Or.</span>25.47</span> (vv. ll. [[τήτθη]], [[τίθη]]), Thom.Mag.<span class="bibl">p.359</span> R. ([[τίθη]] codd. and prob. Thom.); title of play by Diphilus, <span class="title">IG</span>22.2363.35: <b class="b3">τίθη λέγεται ἡ μάμμη, τίτθη ἡ βυζάστρια, τιθήνη ἡ τροφός</b> Ps.-Hdn.Gr. post Moer.<span class="bibl">p.479</span> P., cf. Ptol.Asc.<span class="bibl">p.394</span> H., etc. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> [[nurse]]; <b class="b3">τῆ, ὅθεν καὶ τήθη ἡ λέγουσα δέξαι, θήλασον</b>" Sch.<span class="bibl">Il.14.219</span>, cf. Sch.<span class="bibl">Ar. <span class="title">Lys.</span>549</span>; but this is an error, the word for [[nurse]] being [[τίτθη]] ([[quod vide|q.v.]]).</span>