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altrinsĕcus, adv. [for alterim-secus from alter-secus] (ante- and post-class.; ante-class. only in Plaut. in the foll. exs.).

  1. I. At or on the other side: quid, malum, adstas? quin retines altrinsecus? Plaut. Mil. 2, 5, 36; so id. Ps. 3, 2, 73; 1, 3, 123; id. Rud. 4, 4, 114; id. Merc. 5, 4, 16: fenestrae, quae foris (outwardly) urbem prospiciunt, et altrinsecus (within) fores, etc., App. M. 1, p. 111, 41; so id. ib. 2, p. 122, 39.
    With gen.: aedium, App. M. 3, p. 137, 2.
  2. II. (Postclass.) From or on both sides, = ab utrāque parte: venientes altrinsecus, Lact. 8, 6; so Amm. 25, 7; Treb. Poll. Gall. p. 309; Fulg. Prisc. Serm. p. 560, 9: utrasque partes contra se altrinsecus posuit, over against each other on each side, Vulg. Gen. 15, 10: bracchiola duo altrinsecus (fecit), stays on each side, ib. 2 Par. 9, 18.
    Cf. Hand, Turs. I. pp. 282-284.

altrix, īcis, f. [altor], a female nourisher, cherisher, sustainer (mostly poet.; cf. alumnus): Calydonia altrix terra exsuperantum virum, Pac. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 18 Müll.: eorum eadem terra parens, altrix, patria dicitur, Cic. Fl. 26; id. Tim. 10: altricem Ulixi, Verg. A. 3, 273.
Without terra: altricis extra limen Apuliae, * Hor. C. 3, 4, 10; so once in Cic.: Romani nominis, Poët. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 12, 20: Idā altrice relictā (since Hermaphroditus had been brought up there), Ov. M. 4, 293: Sanguinis altricem non pudet esse lupam, * Prop. 5, 1, 38: bellorum bellatorumque virorum, Sil. 1, 218.
Esp., of a wet-nurse, Ov. M. 11, 683; so Stat. Th. 1, 602; Sil. 2, 1, 96; Sen. Hippol. 251; id. Herc. Oet. 450; Gell. 12, 20.