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τροφ-εῖα , τά,
A.pay for rearing and bringing up, wages of a nurse, “θανὼν τ. πληρώσει χθονί” A.Th.477; [πορσῦναι] E.El.626; ἀποδοῦναι, ἐκτίνειν, Id.Ion 852, Pl.R.520b; prov., κριὸς τὰ τ. (sc. ἀπέτεισεν) Men.905; “ἀνταποδοῦναι” Lys.6.49, cf. IG5(2).345.7 (Orchom. Arc., ii/i B. C.), POxy.37.10 (i A. D.); “πράξασθαι” D.S.9.13.
II. βίου τ. one's living, food, S.OC341; τ. ματρός mother's milk, E.Ion 1493 (lyr.).
III. fodder, BGU912.19 (i A. D.), PAmh.2.143.5 (iv A. D.).
IV. maintenance, board, paid in money or kind, PEleph. 3.2, al. (iii B. C.), PMich.Teb.121v vii 7, al. (i A. D.), PRyl.153.4 (ii A. D.); paid to a wet-nurse, BGU1106.38,47 (i B. C.), PGrenf.2.75.5 (iv A. D.).
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, Seven Against Thebes, 477
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 9.13
    • Euripides, Electra, 626
    • Euripides, Ion, 852
    • Euripides, Ion, 1493
    • Lysias, Against Andocides, 49
    • Plato, Republic, 520b
    • Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, 341
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