μητρό-πολις,
Doric dialect ματρό-, poetry μητρόπτολις, [[ “epigram Gr.” 537.4 (from Tomi), 842a1 (from Cyrene), “Syria” 7.209 (from Damascus), 4th-5th c.AD(?): Nonnus Epicus “Dionysiaca” 13.166 ] Refs 4th c.AD+]: εως, ἡ:— mother-state, as related to her colonies, of Athens in relation to the Ionians, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.51, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.82 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of Doris in relation to the Peloponn. Dorians, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.31, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.107, 3.92 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of Meroe in relation to the Ethiopians, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.29 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of Thera, μεγαλᾶν πολίων μ. [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.20; μ. Λοκρῶν Ὀπόεις 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 93 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of the Attic Salamis, as the μ. of the Cyprian, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 895 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of Corinth, as the μ. of Corcyra, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.24 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of Rome, [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 14.296. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__2 metaphorically, ἐστὶ μ. τοῦ ψυχροῦ [ὁ ἐγκέφαλος] [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ σαρκῶν” 4; ἡ ἱστορία μ. τῆς φιλοσοφίας 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 1.2, compare 3rd c.BC: Chrysippus Stoicus 3.199 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; γεωμετρία ἀρχὴ καὶ μ. τῶν ἄλλων (i.e. μαθημάτων) [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Philolaus Philosophus cited in 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.718e. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II one's mother-city, mothercountry, home, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 5.8, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 707 (Lyric poetry), “Ant.” 1122 (Lyric poetry). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]