Λοχαῖοι δίφροι

birthing chairs, birthing stools

Translated by David Whitehead12 Sep 2001Vetting: high3 revisions

8 words

Women use them in recent times for childbirth.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Λοχαῖοι δίφροι· οἷς πρὸς τὸ τεκεῖν ὀψὲ χρῶνται αἱ γυναῖκες.

Betacode

*loxai=oi di/froi: oi(=s pro\s to\ tekei=n o)ye\ xrw=ntai ai( gunai=kes.

From a gloss (on the headword phrase) in Artemidorus 5.73 -- but it appears there without "in recent times" (o)ye/). The medical writer Soranus of Ephesus describes such chairs or stools without suggesting that they were novel in his time (mid/late C2 CE).