μογοστόκος

mogostokos

of birth-pangs

Appears 3 times across Homer's epics.

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μογοστόκος, ον, goddess

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.