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λόχιος , α, ον,
A.of or belonging to child-birth, λ. νοσήματα childbed, E. El.656; “ὠδίνων λοχίαις ἀνάγκαισι” Id.Ba.89 (lyr.), cf. Ion452 (lyr.); λόχιαι . . Μοῖραι prob. in Id.IT206 (lyr.); “λοχίης ἐκ νηδύος” A.R.4.706.
2. λοχίη, = Lat. foeta or puerpera, Opp.C.3.292.
b. λόχιαι, αἱ, = λοχεῖαι, Euph.9.11.
II. Λοχία, ἡ, epith. of Artemis, E.IT1097, Supp.958 (both lyr.), cf. SIG1219.33 (Gambreum, iii B.C.):—also Λοχεία , q.v.
III. λόχια, τά, discharge after child-birth, Hp.Nat. Puer.18, Arist.HA573a9 (“ἡ λοχίη κάθαρσις” Hp.Mul.1.29, al.).
2. child-birth, AP7.375 (Antiphil.), 9.311 (Phil.).
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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