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  "headword": "μαῖα",
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    {
      "definition": "",
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          "definition": "<i>good mother,</i> form of address to old women, Hom. (only in Od.), always in voc., usu. addressed to Eurycleia, the nurse of Odysseus, Od. 19.482, al.; but also to Eurynome the ταμίη, 17.499: hence not only of nurses, cf. h.Cer. 147, Ar. Ec. 915 (lyr.).",
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          "children": [
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              "children": [
                {
                  "label": "2",
                  "definition": "<i>foster-mother,</i> E. Hipp. 243 (anap.), Antiph. 159.6; also, a true <i>mother,</i> μαῖα δὴ κάτω βέβακεν E. Alc. 393 (lyr.): metaph., of the earth, ἰὼ γαῖα μαῖα A. Ch. 44 (lyr.), cf. S. Fr. 959.",
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                  "citations": [
                    {
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                      "data": {
                        "quote": "μαῖα δὴ κάτω βέβακεν",
                        "ref": "E. Alc. 393",
                        "urn": "urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg002.perseus-grc2:393"
                      }
                    },
                    {
                      "urn": "urn:cite2:scaife-viewer:citations.atlas_v1:lsj-85959",
                      "data": {
                        "quote": "ἰὼ γαῖα μαῖα",
                        "ref": "A. Ch. 44",
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                      }
                    }
                  ],
                  "children": []
                },
                {
                  "label": "3",
                  "definition": "<i>midwife,</i> Pl. Tht. 149a, Isyll. 54, Sor. 2.3, al., etc.",
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                  "citations": [],
                  "children": [
                    {
                      "label": "b",
                      "definition": "<i>lady doctor,</i> Gal. 14.641.",
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                      "citations": [],
                      "children": []
                    }
                  ]
                },
                {
                  "label": "4",
                  "definition": "Dor., <i>grandmother,</i> Iamb. VP 11.56, IG 12(3).1120 ( Melos).",
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                  "citations": [],
                  "children": []
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "label": "II",
              "definition": "<i>large kind of crab,</i> Arist. HA 525b4, al.",
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              "citations": [],
              "children": []
            },
            {
              "label": "III",
              "definition": "Orib. Fr. 102. (Prob. from same Root as μήτηρ.)",
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              "citations": [],
              "children": []
            }
          ]
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      ]
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  "key": "mai=a",
  "type": "main"
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