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πόρτι^ς , ι^ος, ἡ, poet. word (in later Prose, acc. pl.
A.“πόρτιας” Ant.Lib. 23.3), calf, young heifer (younger than δαμάλη, Sch.Theoc.1.75), Il.5.162, h.Cer.174, S.Tr.530 (lyr.), etc.; “δαμάλαι καὶ πόρτιες” Theoc.1.75; “ἀεργηλὴν ἔτι π.” A.R.4.1186; young cow, Theoc.1.121, Mosch.3.82: rarely masc., A.Supp.41 (lyr.), 314.
2. metaph., young maiden, Lyc.102; cf. πόρις. (Cf. Skt. pṛthukas 'young of an animal', Arm. orth 'calf'.)
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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    • Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens, 41
    • Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens, 314
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 2 to Demeter, 174
    • Homer, Iliad, 5.162
    • Sophocles, Trachiniae, 530
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 4.1186
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