maternus

Credo sic mater, sic Liber avunculus ejus, Sic maternus avus dixerat, atque avia.

The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it Frances Ellen Lord

But Sintenis supposes that Plutarch may have misunderstood the Roman expression "avunculus maternus."

Plutarch's Lives Volume III. 46-120? Plutarch 1839

"Verily, a real _noevus maternus_" said I, "impressed by an avenging angel on the mother's brain, and transferred by nature's daguerreotype to the back of the child."

Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXII Alexander Leighton 1837

ouaque maternus rupit hiulca tepor, protinus implumis conuertit ad aethera nidos5

An Eagle of Roman Song Claudian 1912