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  "headword": "τέκνον",
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        "quote": "τίκτω,--οὐκ ἔστι μήτηρ ἡ κεκλημένου τέκνου τοκεύς, τροφὸς δὲ . .",
        "ref": "A. Eu. 658",
        "urn": "urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0085.tlg007.perseus-grc2:658"
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          "definition": "<i>child,</i> ἄλοχοι καὶ νήπια τέκνα Il. 2.136, al.; πατρὸς σωφροσύνη μέγιστον τέκνοις παράγγελμα Democr. 208, cf. 222; τέκνα καὶ γυναῖκες Hdt. 1.164, 2.30, SIG 569.10 ( Cos, iii B.C.), al., Plb. 2.58.9, 9.39.3; γυναῖκες καὶ τ. Hdt. 6.19, al., Plb. 5.78.1 (cf. 10.34.3), SIG 633.46 ( Milet., ii B.C.), BGU 1811.5 (i B.C.), etc.: the sg. is used by Hom. only in voc., as a form of address from elders to their youngers, <i>my son, my child,</i> sts. with masc. Adj., φίλε τέκνον Il. 22.84, Od. 2.363, al.: the relat. Pron. or Participle sts. follows in masc. or fem., Pi. Fr. 171, E. Supp. 12 sq., Tr. 740:—the word is used in Prose at Cyrene, Berl.Sitzb. 1927.160, and Epidaurus, IG 42(1).122.82 (iv B.C.), al., but is rarer than παῖς in Att. Prose, Lys. 2.74, 11.10, 12.96, D. 11.9, Din. 1.109; freq. in X., Lac. 1.8, al., also Arist., Pol. 1253b7, al., and later, PPetr. 3p.237 (iii B.C.), PCair.Zen. 620.9 (iii B.C.), LXX Ge. 3.16, al., PAmh. 2.35.55 (ii B.C.), Plb. (v. supr.); rare in Com. exc. in paratragoedic passages, Ar. Ach. 891, al.; in Trag. it is generally used with espec. reference to the mother, ὦ τέκνον Νηρῇδος, ὦ παῖ Πηλέως E. IA 896 (troch.); Ἀγαμέμνονος παῖ (sic codd.) καὶ Κλυταιμήστρας τέκνον Id. IT 238.",
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              "data": {
                "quote": "ἄλοχοι καὶ νήπια τέκνα",
                "ref": "Il. 2.136",
                "urn": "urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-grc2:2.136"
              }
            },
            {
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              "data": {
                "quote": "πατρὸς σωφροσύνη μέγιστον τέκνοις παράγγελμα",
                "ref": "Democr. 208",
                "urn": "urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0161.tlg001.perseus-grc2:208"
              }
            },
            {
              "urn": "urn:cite2:scaife-viewer:citations.atlas_v1:lsj-136758",
              "data": {
                "quote": "τέκνα καὶ γυναῖκες",
                "ref": "Hdt. 1.164",
                "urn": "urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0016.tlg001.perseus-grc2:1.164"
              }
            },
            {
              "urn": "urn:cite2:scaife-viewer:citations.atlas_v1:lsj-136759",
              "data": {
                "quote": "φίλε τέκνον",
                "ref": "Il. 22.84",
                "urn": "urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-grc2:22.84"
              }
            },
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              "data": {
                "quote": "ὦ τέκνον Νηρῇδος, ὦ παῖ Πηλέως",
                "ref": "E. IA 896",
                "urn": "urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg018.perseus-grc2:896"
              }
            },
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              "data": {
                "quote": "καὶ Κλυταιμήστρας τέκνον",
                "ref": "Id. IT 238",
                "urn": "urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg013.perseus-grc2:238"
              }
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          ],
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                  "label": "2",
                  "definition": "<i>young,</i> Od. 16.217, Il. 2.311, 12.170, al., A. Th. 292 (lyr.), Hdt. 2.66, 3.102, 109, X. Cyr. 4.1.17, Arist. GA 753a8, etc.",
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                  "label": "3",
                  "definition": "γαίας τέκνα A. Pers. 618; birds αἰθέρος τέκνα E. El. 897; frogs λιμναῖα κρηνῶν τ. Ar. Ra. 211, etc. [The penult. is long in Hom.; it is occasionally long in Trag.(e.g. S. Ph. 249, 260, 875, 914), but much more freq. short, as always in old Com., e.g. Ar. Lys. 7, Th. 469, al., except in mock Tragic passages, e.g. Ar. V. 1518 (lyr.); but sts. long in later Com., Antiph. 163.6.]",
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                      "data": {
                        "quote": "γαίας τέκνα",
                        "ref": "A. Pers. 618",
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                      }
                    },
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                      "data": {
                        "quote": "αἰθέρος τέκνα",
                        "ref": "E. El. 897",
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                      }
                    }
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