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τοκ-άς

tokas · ἡ

of, for breeding, brood, prolific

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τοκ-άς · tok-as — LSJ

of, for breeding, brood, prolific

of or for breeding, brood, σύες θήλειαι τοκάδες Od. 14.16, cf. PSI 4.379.21 (iii B. C.), PCair.Zen. 152 (iii B. C.), Plb. 12.4.8, etc.; φόρος χηνῶν τοκάδων PPetr. 3p.286 (iii B. C.); ὀρνείθων τελείων τοκάδων POxy. 1207.9 (ii A. D.); prolific, γυναῖκες Str. 4.1.2; τοκάδα τὴν κεφαλὴν ἔχει, of Zeus, Luc. DDeor. 12[9].1.

2 having just brought forth, with cubs, with pups, mothers, mothers, mother, mother

having just brought forth, Eub. 149; τ. λέαινα with cubs, E. Med. 187 (anap.); τ. κύνες with pups, Call. Dian. 89 (τ. as Subst., mothers, AP 9.268 (Antip. Thess.)); of goats, Theoc. 8.63: rarely of women, ὅσαι δὲ τοκάδες ἦσαν E. Hec. 1157; γενναίων τʼ ἐκ τοκάδων born from noble mothers, Id. Cyc. 42 (lyr.); τοκάδα τὰν . . Βάκχου his mother, Id. Hipp. 560 (lyr.); τ. κόνις oneʼs motherland, Lyc. 316.

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