A.“γήραος” Il.22.60, al., Archil.116, Mimn.2.6, Pi.O. 8.71, etc.; “γήρως” Thgn.174, Att. (v. infr.): dat. “γήραϊ” Pi.N.7.99, Hdt.6.24, contr. “γήρᾳ” S.Aj.507, etc., γήρατι v.l. in Adam.Phgn.1.14 (cf. γῆρος):—old age, “γ. λυγρόν” Od.24.250; “στυγερόν” Il.19.336; ἐπὶ γήραος οὐδῷ (v. οὐδός) 22.60; opp. γ. λιπαρόν, Od.19.368, Pi. l.c.; “γ. πολιόν” Thgn.174; γῆρας ἐκδῦναι, ἀποσείσασθαι, Ar.Pax 336, Lys. 670 (with play on signf. 11); ἐπὶ γήρως in old age, Id.Eq.524; “ἐν τῷ γήρᾳ” Pl.R.329c, Lys.2.73; σὺν γήρᾳ, ἐν γ. βαρύς, S.OT17, Aj.1017; “διανοίας γ.” Arist.Pol.1271a1: metaph., οὐκ ἔστι γῆρας τοῦδε τοῦ μιάσματος, i.e. it never wears out, A.Th.682.
γῆρας , τό, gen.
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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