wet-nurse
WET-NURSE
nutrix cui parvulus delegatur ut eum uberibus alat (after Tac. Germ. 20) or nutrix only (adhibere puero nutrices Gell. 12 1; opposed to “nursing her own child”).
nutrix cui parvulus delegatur ut eum uberibus alat (after Tac. Germ. 20) or nutrix only (adhibere puero nutrices Gell. 12 1; opposed to “nursing her own child”).
wet-nurse: nutrix, īcis: each mother suckles her own child; children are not entrusted to w.s, sua quemque mater uberibus alit, nec nutricibus delegantur, Tac. G. 20: we seem to have sucked in error almost with our w.'s milk, paene cum lacte nutricis errorem suxisse videmur, Cic. Tusc. 3, 1, 2.