The corpus record

θρεπ-τήριος

threpterios

feeding, nourishing

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Where it lives

Libation Bearers 2 · 3.72/10k
Works and Days 1 · 1.73/10k
Oedipus at Colonus 1 · 0.97/10k

What it meant — LSJ

feeding, nourishing

feeding, nourishing, μαστός A. Ch. 545.

II dedicated as a thank-offering

πλόκαμος Ἰνάχῳ θ. hair dedicated as a thank-offering to Inachus, ib. 6.

III

Subst. θρεπτήριον, τό, = θρεπτάριον, PLond. 5.1708.248 (vi A.D.).

2 reward for rearing, return made by children for their rearing

pl., θρεπτήρια, τά, reward for rearing, made to nurses by parents, h.Cer. 168, 223; also, return made by children for their rearing (Att. τροφεῖα), Hes. Op. 188, Ael. VH 2.7.

b nourishment

nourishment, τὰ . . νηδύος θ. S. OC 1263.

In the wild

θρεπτήριον · threptērion Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 4–6
θρεπτήριον · threptērion Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 543–548
θρεπτήρια · threptēria Works and Days 187–188
θρεπτήρια · threptēria Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1262–1263

Where it came from

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