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altrix , īcis, f. altor,
I.a female nourisher, cherisher, sustainer (mostly poet.; cf. alumnus): Calydonia altrix terra exsuperantum virum, Pac. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 18 Müll.: “eorum eadem terra parens, altrix, patria dicitur,Cic. Fl. 26; id. Tim. 10: “altricem Ulixi,Verg. A. 3, 273.—Without terra: altricis extra limen Apuliae, * Hor. C. 3, 4, 10; so once in Cic.: Romani nominis, Poët. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 12, 20: “Idā altrice relictā (since Hermaphroditus had been brought up there),Ov. M. 4, 293: Sanguinis altricem non pudet esse lupam, * Prop. 5, 1, 38: “bellorum bellatorumque virorum,Sil. 1, 218. —Esp., of a wet-nurse, Ov. M. 11, 683; so Stat. Th. 1, 602; Sil. 2, 1, 96; Sen. Hippol. 251; id. Herc. Oet. 450; Gell. 12, 20.
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    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 4.293
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 3.273
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 11.683
    • Seneca, Hercules Oetaeus, 450
    • Seneca, Phaedra, 251
    • Cicero, De Divinatione, 1.12
    • Statius, Thebias, 1
    • Cicero, Timaeus, 10
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