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μογοσ-τόκος , ον, goddess
A.of birth-pangs, epith. of Eileithyiai (or -yia), Il.11.270, 16.187, 19.103; of Artemis, Theoc.27.30.
2. μ. ὠδῖνες hard travail, Lyc.829.
3. suffering hard travail, metaph., ἵππος, of the Wooden Horse, Tryph.386.
4. bringing the pangs of travail, “ὥρα” Nonn.D. 41.133; ἄσθμα κεραυνοῦ ib.1.2.
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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