Lexicon / G8228
μαῖα
maia
  • a midwife

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Glosses: a midwife

1. good mother, dame , (Odyssey by Homer)

2. a fostermother, nurse , (Euripides):—;also a true mother , (Aeschulus Tragicus)

3. a midwife , (Plato Philosophus) (ML)