bimatris

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Ζήσεις βίον κράτιστον, ἢν θυμοῦ κρατῇς → Vives bene, si sis vacuus iracundia → Am besten lebst du, wenn du deinen Zorn beherrschst

Menander, Monostichoi, 186

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

bĭmātris: e, adj. bis - mater,
I having two mothers, poet. epithet of Bacchus (v. Bacchus init.): satumque iterum solumque bimatrem, Ov. M. 4, 12; Hyg. Fab. 167; Anthol. Lat. 1, 19, 2 (where it is scanned bīmăter).

Latin > English

bimatris bimatris, bimatre ADJ :: having two mothers; twice born (of Bacchus)