nūtrix — Lewis & Short
nūtrix (old orthogr. notrix, acc. to īcis, f.nutrio,
Quint. 1, 4, 16),I a wet-nurse, nurse.
I Lit.:
omnia minima mansa, ut nutrices infantibus pueris, in os inserant,Cic. de Or. 2, 39, 162:
cum lacte nutricis errorem suxisse,id. Tusc. 3, 1, 2:
sidera nutricem nutricis fertile cornu Fecit,Ov. F. 5, 127; Verg. A. 4, 632; 5, 645:
Jubae tellus leonum Arida nutrix,Hor. C. 1, 22, 15:
gallina nutrix,a hen that has chickens, Col. 8, 11, 13:
nutricis tolerare labores,Juv. 6, 593:
mater nutrix,a mother that suckles her own infant, Gell. 12, 1, 5; Inscr. Fabr. p. 188, n. 428:
est enim illa (oratio) quasi nutrix ejus oratoris, quem informare volumus,Cic. Or. 11, 37:
nutricis pallium (prov. of any thing soiled, dirty),Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 30.—
B Transf.
1 She who nourishes or maintains a thing:
virgines perpetui nutrices et conservatrices ignis,Arn. 4, 151. —
2 Nutrices, the breasts, Cat. 64, 18.—
3 A piece of ground in which shoots of trees are planted in order to be set out again, a nursery garden, Plin. 17, 10, 12, § 66.—
4 The land that supports a family, Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 111.—
II Trop., a nurse:
nostramne, ere, vis nutricem, quae nos educat, Abalienare a nobis,Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 111:
curarum maxima nutrix Nox,Ov. M. 8, 81:
Sicilia nutrix plebis Romanae,Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 2, § 5:
nutrix Discordia belli,Claud. in Ruf. 1, 30.