A.= γηραιός, old: in Hom. (who never has γηραιός) always of men, with notion of dignity (v. infr.), cf. Pi. N.4.89; ὁ γεραιός that reverend sire, Il.1.35, etc.; “γεραιέ” 10.164, etc.; but γεραιάς (acc. pl. fem.) 6.87 (cf. 270, 287) is f.l. for γεραίρας, v. γεραρός: Comp. “γεραίτερος” Od.3.24, A.Eu.848, Hdt.6.52; γονῇ πεφυκὼς γ. （-τέρᾳ codd.) S.OC1294; freq. in political sense, οἱ γ. the elders, senators, X.Cyr.1.5.5, Pl.Lg.952a, IG14.2445 (Massilia): Sup. “γεραίτατος” Ar.Ach.286, Pl.Lg.855e, etc.; rarely, = πρεσβύτατος, eldest, Theoc.15.139.
γεραιός , ά, όν, (γέρων, γῆρας)
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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