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μητρῷος , Dor. ματρ- , α, ον, contr. for μητρώϊος (q. v.),
A.of a mother, “αἷμα” A.Eu.230; “τὰ πατρῷα καὶ μ. πήματα” S.OC1196; μ. δέμας, periphr. for τὴν μητέρα, A.Eu.84; “οἱ πατρῷοι καὶ μ. θεοί” X.Cyn.1.15, cf. IG3.235; μ. τροφή, γάλα, Sor.1.86, 87; “μ. κληρονομία” PSI1.66.2 (v A. D.); “τὰ μ.” PMasp.6 ii 91 (vi A. D.).
2. τὸ μ. μόριον, = μήτρα, Hp.Epid.6.5.8.
II. Μητρῷον (sc. ἱερόν), τό, temple of Demeter, Clitodem.1: more freq. temple of Cybele, esp. at Athens, where it was the depository of the state archives, D.19.129, Aeschin.3.187, Chamael. ap. Ath.9.407c, IG22.463.28.
2. Μητρῷα (sc. ἱερά), τά, the worship of Cybele, D.H.Dem.22, Plu.2.407c, IG12(7).237.64 (Amorgos).
b. Μητρῷα, τά, music played in her honour, Duris 16 J.; in full, τὰ M. “μέλη” D.H.2.19; τὸ M. “αὔλημα” Paus.10.30.9.
3. Μητρῷος, ὁ (sc. μήν), month in Bithynia, Hemerolog.Flor.
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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