κουρο-τρόφος,ον,
A. rearing children, rare in lit. sense, γυνὴ νεοτόκος καὶ κ.
Aret. CA 2.3
: usu. metaph.,ἀγαθὴ κ.goodnursing-mother, of Ithaca, Od. 9.27 , cf. Pi. Fr. 109 ; κ. Ἑλλάς
E. Tr. 566
(lyr., s.v.l.);Ἀπόλλωνος κ., of Delos, Call. Del. 2 , 276 : freq. as epith. of goddesses, as Hecate, Hes. Th. 450 ; Ἄρτεμις
D.S. 5.73
; Λοχία
Supp.Epigr. 3.400.9
(Delph.,iii B. C.); of the Roman goddess Rumina, Plu. 2.278d ; esp. of Aphrodite, Hom. Epigr. 12 ; calledἡK. alone, IG 12.840.9 , Ar. Th. 299 , Pl. Com. 174.7 , Luc. DMeretr. 5.1 ;αἱ πύλαι αἱ κατὰ Κουροτρόφον, at Delos, IG 11(2).203
A 46
(iii B. C.):—in formΚουροτρόπος,ὁ(sc.μήν), name of Acarnanian month, ib. 5(1).29.11 (Sparta).