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τι^θηνός , όν, (θῆσθαι)
A.nursing, “χθών” Lyc.1398; πόνων τιθηνοὺς ἀποδιδοῦσά σοι τροφάς repaying thee nurture for thy nursing labours, i.e. rewarding thee for thy trouble in nursing me, E.IA1230.
II. Subst. τιθηνός, ὁ, one who nurses or brings up, foster-father, LXX Nu. 11.12, al., Nic.Al.31, Orph.H.54.1, etc.; “τ. τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ βασιλέως” Sammelb.1568.2 (ii B.C.): also τιθηνός, ἡ, = τιθήνη, Anon. ap. Longin. 44.2, Plu.2.322c.
2. nursling, “παῖδα τιθηνόν” IG14.1437.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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