βρέφος, εος, τό,
babe in the womb, foetus, β. ἡμίονον κυέουσαν, of a mare, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.266, compare 3rd c.BC: Chrysippus Stoicus 2.222. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__II new-born babe, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 37.15, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 6.33, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1096 (Lyric poetry); νέον β. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 289 [not in 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus]: in later Prose, LXX.Sir.19.11, “BGU” 1104.24 (1st c.BC)] LXX+5th c.BC+], etc.; of beasts, foal, whelp, cub, etc., [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.153, 3rd c.BC: Phylarchus Historicus 36, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 3.8, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Oppianus Anazarbensis Epicus “Halieutica - Poetae Bucolici et Didactici” 5.464, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; nestling, [[ 4th c.AD(?): Horapollo 2.99 ] Refs 4th c.AD+]; ἐκ βρέφεος from babyhood, [[ Anthologia Graeca 9.567 (Antip.); ἀπὸ β. NT.2Tim.3.15 ] NT]. (Cf. Slavonic žrèbę 'foal'.)