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θρεπ-τήριος , ον,
A.feeding, nourishing, “μαστός” A.Ch.545.
II. πλόκαμος Ἰνάχῳ θ. hair dedicated as a thank-offering to Inachus, ib. 6.
III. Subst. θρεπτήριον, τό,= θρεπτάριον, PLond.5.1708.248 (vi A.D.).
2. pl., θρεπτήρια, τά, reward for rearing, made to nurses by parents, h.Cer.168,223; also, return made by children for their rearing (Att. τροφεῖα), Hes.Op.188, Ael.VH2.7.
b. nourishment, τὰ . . νηδύος θ. S.OC1263.
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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    • Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, 6
    • Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, 545
    • Hesiod, Works and Days, 188
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 2 to Demeter, 168
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 2 to Demeter, 223
    • Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, 1263
    • Aelian, Varia Historia, 2.7
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