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Headword:
Maieuetai
Adler number: mu,315
Translated headword: serves as a midwife
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The Pisidian [writes]: "[it] serves as midwife to the whole nation of Rome, expressing your praise like milk."
Greek Original:Maieuetai: Pisidês: maieuetai de pan to tês Rhômês genos, tous sous epainous ekpiezon hôs gala.
Notes:
George of
Pisidia,
Heraclias 3 fr.55.
For the headword verb, here (as often) used figuratively, cf.
mu 316,
mu 317.
Keywords: ethics; food; gender and sexuality; geography; imagery; medicine; poetry; women
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 23 April 2008@11:24:20.
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