Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon

A.“γενεῆφι” Il.14.112: (γενέσθαι):

I. of the persons in a family,

1. race, family, “Πριάμου γ.” Il.20.306, cf. Od.1.222, 16.117; “γενεήν τε τόκον τε” Il.15.141; “ἴδμεν . . γενεήν, ἴδμεν δὲ τοκῆας” 20.203, cf. 214; γενεῇ ὑπέρτερος higher by birth or blood, 11.786 (but younger in Archil. ap. Sch.ad l.); ταύτης εἶναι γ. καὶ αἵματος of this race and blood, Il.6.211; “πατρόθεν ἐκ γενεῆς ὀνομάζειν” 10.68; γενεῇ by birthright, Od.1.387; Αἰτωλὸς γενεήν by descent, Il.23.471; “γενεὴν Διός” 21.187; γενεὴ ἔκ τινος descent from . . , ib.157; “γενεὴν ἀπὸ Θρηίκης” Hdt.2.134; of horses, breed, stock, Il.5.265, 268: pl., χρήματα καὶ γενεάς families, Plu.Tim.34; γενεὰν ποιεῖσθαι to have issue, GDI1798 (Delph.); πατριὰ καὶ γ., = φρατρία καὶ γένος, ib.1152 (Elis): hence, tribe, nation, Περσῶν γ., Τυρρηνῶν γ., A.Pers. 912 (lyr.), Eleg.2:—rare in Prose, τίς ὢν γενεάν; X.Cyr.1.1.6; “καὶ αὐτὸν καὶ τὰν γ. ἀπολέσθαι” SIG306.8 (Tegea, iv B. C.).

2. race, generation, “οἵηπερ φύλλων γ. τοιήδε καὶ ἀνδρῶν” Il.6.146; “δύο γ. μερόπων ἀνθρώπων” 1.250, etc., cf. Hdt.2.142, Th.1.14, Heraclit. ap. Plu.2.415e (but, = μήν, Id. ap. Lyd.Mens.3.14); “ἀστὴν ἐξ ἀστῶν ἀμφοτέρων ἐπὶ τρεῖς γ. γεγενημένην” SIG1015.6 (Halic.); age, γ. ἀνθρωπηΐη the historical, opp. to the mythical, age, Hdt.3.122; “ἐπὶ τῆς ἡμετέρας γ.” D.H.3.15.

3. offspring, Il.21.191, Orac. ap. Hdt.6.86, S.Aj.189 (lyr.); of a single person, Τυροῦς γ. (i. e. Pelias) Pi.P.4.136, cf.l.8(7).71.

4. metaph., class, kind, “τὸ σύμμετρον καὶ καλὸν καὶ ὁπόσα τῆς γ. ταύτης ἐστίν” Pl.Phlb.66b; “ταύτης τοι γενεᾶς ὁ νοῦς οὗτος” Plot.5.1.7.

II. of Time or Place,

1. birthplace, “γ. ἐπὶ λίμνῃ Γυγαίῃ” Il.20.390, cf. Od.1.407; of an eagle's evrie, 15.175.

2. age, time of life, “γενεῆφι νεώτατος” Il.14.112; γενεῇ πρεσβύτατος, προγενέστερος, ὁπλότερος, 6.24,9.161, Od.19.184.

3. after Hom., time of birth, “ἐκ γενεῆς” Hdt.3.33,4.23; “ἀπὸ γ.” X.Cyr.1.2.8.