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μεταγενής , ές,
A.born after, ὁ μεταγενής the youngest, Men.154: Comp. -έστερος D.S.12.11, Luc.Salt.80; οἱ μεταγενέστεροι posterity, D.S. 11.14, J.BJ2.8.10, Hierocl.in CA 4p.426M.
2. of later time, “μεταγενέστεροι συγγραφεῖς” D.H.Th.9: hence, in Philos., ταῦτα -έστερα τῶν γενῶν τοῦ ὄντος prob. in Procl. in Prm.p.850 S.; also μ. μετὰ ταῦτα τὴν πολυπραγμοσύνην consequent, Phld.Rh.2.262 S.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (5):
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 12.11
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 11.14
    • Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War, 2.8.10
    • Lucian, De saltatione, 80
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydide, 9
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