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γενέτ-ης , ου, ὁ,
A.begetter, ancestor, E.Or.1011 (anap.), Call.Epigr. 23.2; father, IG3.1335, 12(7).115 (Amorgos); γενέται καὶ πατρὶς ἔχουσιν ὀστέα, i.e. the tomb of my fathers, BMus.Inscr.2.179,al.: in pl., parents, IG4.682 (Hermione): generally, author, Epigr.Gr.979.4 (Philae).
2. son, “ὁ Διὸς γ.” S.OT472; “ὁ ἐμὸς γ.” E.Ion916 (lyr.).
II. as Adj., = γενέθλιος, θεοί A.Supp.77 (lyr.), E.Ion 1130.
2. produced, “ὁ Νεῖλος θέρει γ.” Olymp.in Mete.94.9.
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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    • Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens, 77
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    • Euripides, Ion, 916
    • Euripides, Orestes, 1011
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