λοχ-εύω,
(λόχος [[ 11)] Refs] bring forth, bear, παῖδα [[ “hymnus ad Mercurium” 230, compare 5th-6th c.AD: Orphica “Argonautica” 184, etc.; γαστὴρ ἥ σ᾽ ἐλόχευσε “Anthologia Graeca” 9.126 ] Refs 5th c.AD+]; of the father, beget, [[ 5th-6th c.AD: Orphica “Argonautica” 136, compare 13 ] Refs 5th c.AD+]; of both parents,[[[prev. work] 159 ] Refs]; metaphorically, produce, φλογὸς ἄσθμα [[ 5th-6th c.AD: Coluthus Epicus 179 ] Refs 5th c.AD+]:—middle, - ομένην δε.. ἔαρ ὕμνων [[ “Anthologia Graeca” 7.12. ] Refs]
__2 of the midwife, bring to the birth, deliver, τινα [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 948, 1596, compare “El.” 1129 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—hence in passive, to be brought to bed, be in labour, ἔνθ᾽ ἐλοχεύθην [[ [prev. author] “Tr.” 602 (Lyric poetry)] Refs]; λοχευθεῖσ᾽ ἀστραπηφόρῳ πυρί, of Semele, [[ [prev. author] “Ba.” 3, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pelopidas” 16: with _genitive_, λοχευθείσης αὐτοῦ τῆς μητρός [prev. author] “Cic.” 2. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__3 of a man, practise couvade, [[ 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 5.14. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__II middle, in sense of active, of the mother, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 921 (_anapaest meter_), 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 616a34, 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Delum” 326 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also of the birthplace, [[ “APl.” 4.295. ] Refs]
__III passive, of the child, to be born, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1322 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Τιτᾶνι λοχευθεῖσαν by the obstetric art of the Titan, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 455 (Lyric poetry). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]