bimatris

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χελῶναι μακάριαι τοῦ δέρματος → you tortoises are fortunate in your skin, you blessed turtles with your shell

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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).