τῐθην-έω,
take care of, tend, nurse, [[ LXX.Sir.30.9, “BGU” 859.4 (2nd c.AD), 5th-6th c.AD: Orphica “Hymni” 63.15 ] LXX+2nd c.AD+]:—passive, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 60. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II elsewhere in middle (aorist ἐτιθήνατο, as if from τιθαίνομαι, [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Trag.” 94)] Refs 2nd c.AD+], nurse, suckle, [[ 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 1231, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Σαμία” 32 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; tend as nurse, παῖδα νεογνόν [[ “hymnus ad Cererem” 142, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.5.19. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 tend, fosler, οὗ πότνιαι σεμνὰ τιθηνοῦνται τέλη θνατοῖσιν [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1050 (Lyric poetry), compare 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 148, 172. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]