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Headword:
*mogosto/kos
Adler number: mu,1182
Translated headword: birth-toiling, of birth-pangs
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [sc. She] who is suffering badly in childbirth.[1] But some [sc. say that the word means] she who brings toils to women giving birth.
Greek Original:*mogosto/kos: peri\ tou\s to/kous kakopaqou=sa. e)/nioi de\ h( mo/gous tai=s tiktou/sais e)pife/rousa.
Notes:
Likewise or similarly in other lexica: see the references at
Photius mu496 Theodoridis. The second of the two senses set out here appears to be the primary one: see LSJ s.v. on this headword as an Homeric (and poetic) epithet, chiefly of
epsiloniota 108 (q.v.).
[1] cf. -- albeit more generally --
mu 1183.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 23 July 2009@08:49:09.
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