A.skilled in midwifery, ib.151c; ἡ μαιευτικὴ τέχνη or ἡ -κή alone, art of delivery, Id.Plt.268b; esp. metaph. of the Socratic method of eliciting from others what was in their minds without their knowing it, Id.Tht.161e, D.L.3.49sq.; οἱ μ. διάλογοι of Plato, such as Alc. 1, La., Ly., Thrasyll.ib.59. Adv. -“κῶς” Poll.4.208.
μαι-ευτικός , ή, όν,
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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