μαστός, ὁ,
Epic dialect, Ionic dialect μαζός, [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus (except in 3.133, 5.18, where codices give μαστός] Refs 8th c.BC+]; twice in codices of Trag., [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 531, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 701)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Doric dialect μασδός [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 3.16, 48 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; later μασθός [[ LXX.Isa.32.12 (codex A), +others, 3rd c.BC: Asclepiades Epigrammaticus cited in 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 13.934, NT.Rev.1.13 (variant), “IG” 3.238] LXX+3rd c.BC+] b, [[ PMag.Lond. 121.208, etc., also in codices of 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 545:] Refs 4th c.BC+] —usage contradicts the statement of Grammars that μαζός is the man's breast, μαστός the woman's:— breast, δεξιτερὸν κατὰ μαζόν [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.393 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of men's breasts, βάλε δουρὶ στέρνον ὑπὲρ μαζοῖο [[ 4.528; βάλε στῆθος παρὰ μαζόν 8.121, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.82, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.4.17, 4.3.6. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__2 more frequently of a woman's breast, μαζὸν ἀνέσχε, of Hecuba pleading with Hector, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.80; εἴ ποτέ τοι λαθικηδέα μαζὸν ἐπέσχον [prev. work] 83 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; γυναῖκά τε θήσατο μαζόν sucked her breast,[[ 24.58; πάϊς δέ οἱ ἦν ἐπὶ μαζῷ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.448; σὺ δέ μ᾽ ἔτρεφες.. τῷ σῷ ἐπὶ μαζῷ 19.483; so φαίνουσαι τοὺς μαζούς 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.85; τοὺς μ. ἀποταμοῦσα [prev. author] 4.202; ἐπὶ τοῦ μαστοῦ ἔφυ φῦμα [prev. author] 3.133; προὔκειτο μαστῶν περονίς 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 925 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; προσέσχε μαζόν, of the mother, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 531; μαστὸν ἀμφέχασκε, of the child, [prev. work] 545, compare 897; μαστῶν ἀποστάς 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 776; πῶλον ἀφέλξων σῶν ἀπὸ μαστῶν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 142 (_anapaest meter_), etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]