Included with: ὠδίς
([[4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 211, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Epistulae” 313a)] Refs], ῖνος, ἡ: Epic dialect dative plural ὠδίνεσσι [[ “hymnus ad Apollinem” 92, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 17.61, etc.] Refs 3rd c.BC+]: later nominative ὠδίν [[ LXX.Isa.37.3, NT.1Thes.5.3 ] LXX+NT]:— mostly in plural, pangs or throes of childbirth, πικρὰς ὠδῖνας ἔχουσαι [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.271 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; τέκε.. ἐν μόναις ὠδῖσιν.. διδύμων σθένος υἱῶν at a single birth, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 9.85; πόνους ἐνεγκοῦσ᾽ ἐν ὠδῖσι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 920 (Lyric poetry); ἐν ὠδίνων λοχίαις ἀνάγκαισι [prev. author] “Ba.” 89 (Lyric poetry), compare “Ion” 452 (Lyric poetry); αἱ δἰ ὠδίνων γοναί [prev. author] “Ph.” 355 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: also in singular, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 6.43, “N.” 1.36, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 533 (Lyric poetry); γυνὴ φεύγει πικρὰν ὠδῖνα παίδων [prev. author] “fragment” 932. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 in singular also, that which is born amid throes, child, παῖδα, φιλτάτην ἐμοὶ ὠδῖνα [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Ag.” 1418, compare 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 6.31, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 45 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; θαλλὸν ἱερὸν ἐλαίας, Λατοῦς ὠδῖνα (perhaps ὠδῖνι) φίλαν [[ [prev. author] “IT” 1102 (Lyric poetry)] Refs]; ἄπτερον ὠδῖνα τέκνων, of young birds, [[ [prev. author] “HF” 1040 ] Refs]: plural, children, [[ Anthologia Graeca 7.549 (Leon. 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor)] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; ὀρταλίχων ἁπαλὴ ὠδίς, of eggs, [[ 2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Alexipharmaca” 165; τοῦ ᾠοῦ ἐν ὠδῖνι ὄντος 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 560b22 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ὠ. Θαλάσσας, of Aphrodite, [[“Anthologia Graeca” 9.386] Refs]; ὠδὶς μελίσσης, of honey, [[ 4th-5th c.AD(?): Nonnus Epicus “Dionysiaca” 5.228, +others ] Refs 4th c.AD+]