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γένν-α^ Emp.17.27, 22.9, A.Pr.853 (but γέννα_ in lyr. passages of E., as Hec.159), ης, ἡ:—poet. for γένος,
A.descent, birth, origin, “γέννᾳ μεγαλυνομένων” A.Pr.892, cf. Ag.760 (lyr.).
2. origin, [τοῦ ὄντος] Parm. 8.6; “διέχειν γέννῃ τε κρήσει τε” Emp.22.7; “γῆ γ. πάντων” Secund. Sent.15; production, “πύου” Aret.SD1.14; ὑγρῶν ib.15.
II. offspring, son, Pi.O.7.23; “θνᾴσκοντα γέννας ἄτερ” A. Th.748; “λαγίνα γ.” Id.Ag.119; generation, “πέμπτη δ᾽ ἀπ᾽ αὐτοῦ γέννα” Id.Pr.853, cf. 774.
2. race, family, οὐρανία γ. ib. 165; “ἀρσένων γ.” E.Med.428 (lyr.): rare in Prose, “ἡ τοῦ πέρατος γ.” Pl.Phlb.25d, cf. Is.Fr. 136.
3. creation, creature, PMag.Leid.V.7.14.
4. personified, Creative Force, ib. W.5.3.
III. of the Moon, coming forth, Ach.Tat.Intr.Arat.21, Sch.Arat.735, Paul.Al.G.4.
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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