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γένος, εος
or ους, τό, race, stock, kin, ἀμφοτέροισιν ὁμὸν γ. ἠδ᾽ ἴα πάτρη [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.354; αἷμά τε καὶ γ. 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.583; ὑμετέρου δ᾽ οὐκ ἔστι γένεος βασιλεύτερον 15.533; γένος πατέρων αἰσχυνέμεν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.209; γ. ἀπόλωλε τοκήων 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.62; ὅθι τοι γένος ἐστὶ καὶ αὐτῇ 6.35: frequently _absolutely_ in _accusative_, ἐξ Ἰθάκης γένος εἰμί] Refs 8th c.BC+] from Ithaca I am by race,[[ 15.267, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.544, 896, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 239, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; in Attic dialect frequently with the Article, ποδαπὸς τὸ γένος εἶ ; [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 186, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 216a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: so in dative, γένει πολῖται [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 23.24 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; γένει υἱός, opposed to an adopted son, [[ [prev. author] 44.2 ] Refs]; οἱ ἐν γένει, ={συγγενεῖς}, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1430; οἱ ἔξω γένους [prev. author] “Ant.” 660; οὐδὲν ἐν γένει [prev. author] “OT” 1016; γένει προσήκειν τινί 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.6.1; γένει ἀπωτέρω εἶναι 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 44.13: in _genitive_, γένους εἶναί τινος] Refs 5th c.BC+] to be of his race, ἄναγνος καὶ γένους τοῦ Λαΐου [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1383, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 4.2.9 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐγγυτέρω, ἐγγύτατα γένους, nearer, next of kin, [[ 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 8.33, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 388. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2 direct descent, opposed to collateral relationship, γένος γάρ, ἀλλ᾽ οὐχὶ συγγένεια [[ 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 8.33 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; αἱ κατὰ γένος βασιλεῖαι hereditary monarchies, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1285a16, 1313a10. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
Close Browse lexicon entries __II offspring, even of a single descendant, σὸν γ. [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.124, 21.186; ἡ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἔην θεῖον γ. οὐδ᾽ ἀνθρώπων 6.180; ἁμὸν Οἰδίπου γ. 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 654 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; Διὸς γ., of Bacchus, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1117 (Lyric poetry); Τέκμησσα, δύσμορον γ. [prev. author] “Aj.” 784. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 collectively, offspring, posterity, ἐκεῖνοι καὶ τὸ γ. τὸ ἀπ᾽ ἐκείνων [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.126; ἐξώλη ποιεῖν αὐτὸν καὶ γ. καὶ οἰκίαν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.71. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III generally, race, of beings, θεῶν [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 960; ἡμιθέων γ. ἀνδρῶν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.23 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἡμιόνων, βοῶν γ., [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.852, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.212 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἵππειον γ., i.e. mules, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 342; ἰχθύων πλωτὸν γ. [prev. author] “fragment” 941.9. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III.b clan, house, family, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.125, etc.; Φρὺξ μὲν γενεῇ, γένεος δὲ τοῦ βασιληΐου [prev. work] 35 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τοὺς ἀπὸ γένους men of noble family, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Romulus” 21; ἱερεὺς κατὰ γ. “IG” 5(1).497, +others; also ἱέρεια ἀπὸ γένους, διὰ γένους, [prev. work]607.29,602; especially at Athens and elsewhere as a subdivision of the φρατρία, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ath. fragment” 3, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus Alcaeus1.120e, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; = Latin gens, [[ 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 4.21, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Numa” 1. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__III.c tribe, as a subdivision of ἔθνος, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.56, 101. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III.d caste, [[ [prev. author] 2.164. ] Refs]
__III.e of animals, breed, [[ [prev. author] 4.29. ] Refs]
__III.2 age, generation, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.245 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; γ. χρύσεον, etc., [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 109 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: hence, age, time of life, γένει ὕστερος [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.215, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1408a27. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__IV sex, [[ 5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 172.1, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 189d ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; gender, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1407b7, 2nd c.BC: Diogenes Babylonius Stoicus 3.214, etc. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__V class, sort, kind, τὰ γ. τῶν κυνῶν ἐστι δισσά [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 3.1; τὸ φιλόσοφον γ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 501e ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ τῶν γεωργῶν [γ.] [[ [prev. author] “Ti.” 17c, compare “R.” 434b, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1329a27; τῶν ἰχθυοπωλῶν γ. 4th c.BC: Xenarchus Comicus 7.4; τὸ τῶν παρασίτων γ. Nicolaus Rhetor Comedy texts 1.1, etc. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__V.2 in Logic, opposed to εἶδος (species), [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Parmenides” 129c, +others, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Topica” 102a31, 102b12, +others; τὰ γ. εἰς εἴδη πλείω καὶ διαφέροντα διαιρεῖται [prev. author] “Metaphorical” 1059b36. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__V.3 in the animal kingdom, τὰ μέγιστα γ., = the modern [[ “Classes” ] Refs], such as birds, fishes, [[ [prev. author] “HA” 490b7, compare 505b26 ] Refs]; so in the vegetable kingdom, γένη τὰ μέγιστα, ={σιτώδη, χεδροπά} and ἀνώνυμα, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 8.1.1. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__V.3.b genus, τὸ τῶν καρκίνων γ., τὸ τῶν περιστερῶν γ., etc., [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 487b17, 488a4; τῶν δένδρων καὶ τῶν φυτῶν εἴδη πλείω τυγχάνει καθ᾽ ἕκαστον γένος 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 1.14.3; τοῦ αὐτοῦ γένους [πίτυς] καὶ πεύκη 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 1.69, +others ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__V.3.c γένος τι a species of plant, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 4.8.13 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; so later, γένη, = crops, ἄλλοις γένεσι τοῖς πρὸς πυρὸν διοικουμένοις [[ “PTeb.” 66.43, +others (2nd c.BC)] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; οἷς ἐὰν αἱρῶμαι γένεσι πλὴν κνήκου [[ “PAmh.” 2.91.15 (2nd c.AD)] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; produce, [[ POxy. 727.20 (2nd c.AD)] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; materials, [[[prev. work]54.16 (3rd c.AD)] Refs 3rd c.AD+]; ἐν γένεσιν in kind, opposed to ἐν ἀργυρίῳ, [[ “PFay.” 21.10 (2nd c.AD). ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__V.4 τὰ γ. the elements, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 54b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]. (Cf. Sanskrit jánas, genitive jánasas; Latin genus, -eris, see at {γίγνομαι}.)
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