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μητρόθεν , Dor. ματρόθεν (also μήτρο-θε Pi.I.3.17), Adv., (μήτηρ)
A.from the mother, by the mother's side, Id.O.7.24; “καταλέξει ἑωυτὸν μ.” Hdt. 1.173, cf. PMag.Par.1.316; “τὰ μ. Κρῆσσα” Hdt.7.99.
2. from one's mother, “μ. δεδεγμένη” A.Ch.750, cf. Ar.Ach.478.
3. from one's mother's womb, “φυγόντα μ. σκότον” A.Th.664, cf. Ch.607 (lyr.): with the force of a gen., ἦ ματρόθεν . . λέκτρ᾽ ἐπλήσω; S.OC527 (lyr.).— Poet. word, used by Hdt., and in later Prose, Luc.Tox.51, Alex.11, Arch.Pap.2.444 (ii A.D.), D.C.49.23.
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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    • Aristophanes, Acharnians, 478
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