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1 altrīx
altrīx īcis, f [altor], a foster-mother, cherisher, sustainer: eorum terra altrix dicitur: Ulixi, V.: altricis limen Apuliae, H.— A wet-nurse, O.* * *nourisher, sustainer; wet nurse, nurse; foster mother; motherland, homeland -
2 altrix
altrix, īcis, f. [altor], 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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