κουροτρόφος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=κουροτρόφον, [[rearing children]], rare in lit. sense, γυνὴ [[νεοτόκος]] καὶ κουροτρόφος Aret. CA2.3: usually metaph., ἀγαθὴ κουροτρόφος [[good]] [[nursing-mother]], of [[Ithaca]], Od. 9.27, cf. Pi.Fr.109; κουροτρόφος [[Ἑλλάς]] E.Tr.566 (lyr., s.v.l.); Ἀπόλλωνος κ., of [[Delos]], Call.Del.2, 276: freq. as [[epithet]] of goddesses, as [[Hecate]], Hes.Th.450; [[Ἄρτεμις]] D.S.5.73; [[Λοχία]] Supp.Epigr.3.400.9 (Delph., iii B. C.); of the Roman goddess [[Rumina]], Plu.2.278d; especially of [[Aphrodite]], Hom.Epigr.12; called ἡ [[Kουροτρόφος]] alone, IG12.840.9, Ar.Th.299, Pl. Com.174.7, Luc.DMeretr.5.1; αἱ πύλαι αἱ κατὰ Κουροτρόφον, at [[Delos]], IG11(2).203A46 (iii B. C.):—in form [[Κουροτρόπος]], ὁ (''[[sc.]]'' [[μήν]]), name of [[Acarnanian]] [[month]], ib.5(1).29.11 (Sparta).