The corpus record

μητρόθεν

metrothen

from the mother, by the motherʼs side

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Where it lives

Libation Bearers 2 · 3.72/10k
Seven Against Thebes 1 · 1.99/10k
Acharnians 1 · 1.41/10k
Ion 1 · 1.09/10k
Helen 1 · 1.02/10k
Oedipus at Colonus 1 · 0.97/10k
Histories 3 · 0.16/10k

What it meant

μητρόθεν · mētrothen — LSJ

from the mother, by the motherʼs side

from the mother, by the motherʼs side, Id. O. 7.24; καταλέξει ἑωυτὸν μ. Hdt. 1.173, cf. PMag.Par. 1.316; τὰ μ. Κρῆσσα Hdt. 7.99.

2 from oneʼs mother

from oneʼs mother, μ. δεδεγμένη A. Ch. 750, cf. Ar. Ach. 478.

3 from oneʼs motherʼs womb

from oneʼs motherʼs womb, φυγόντα μ. σκότον A. Th. 664, cf. Ch. 607 (lyr.): with the force of a gen., ἦ ματρόθεν . . λέκτρʼ ἐπλήσω; S. OC 527 (lyr.).— Poet. word, used by Hdt., and in later Prose, Luc. Tox. 51, Alex. 11, Arch.Pap. 2.444 (ii A.D.), D.C. 49.23.

In the wild

ματρόθεν · matrothen Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 602–611
μητρόθεν · mētrothen Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 749–752
μητρόθεν · mētrothen Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 664–667
μητρόθεν · mētrothen Aristophanes, Acharnians 475 (DIORISIS sentence 376)
ματρόθεν · matrothen Euripides, Helen 2 (DIORISIS sentence 144)
μητρόθεν · mētrothen Euripides, Ion 670 (DIORISIS sentence 451)

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