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γενν-άω , fut. Med. γεννήσομαι in pass. sense, D.S.19.2 (but
A.“-ηθήσομαι” Id.4.9): (γέννα):—causal of γίγνομαι (cf. γείνομαι), mostly of the father, beget, “ὁ γεννήσας πατήρ” S.El. 1412; οἱ γεννήσαντές σε your parents, X.Mem. 2.1.27; “τὸ γεννώμενον ἔκ τινος” Hdt.1.108, etc.; ὅθεν γεγενναμένοι sprung, Pi.P.5.74; of the mother, bring forth, bear, A.Supp.48, Arist.GA716a22, X. Lac.1.3, etc.:—Med., produce from oneself, create, Pl. Ti.34b, Mx. 238a.
2. produce, grow, get, “κἂν σῶμα γεννήσῃ μέγα” S.Aj.1077.
3. metaph., engender, produce, “λήθη τῶν ἰδίων κακῶν θρασύτητα γεννᾷ” Democr.196; “παντοίαν ἀρετήν” Pl.Smp.209e; “διανοήματά τε καὶ δόξας” Id.R.496a, etc.; γεννῶσι τὸν οὐρανὸν [οἱ φιλόσοφοι] call it into existence, Arist.Cael.283b31; ὁ ἐξ ἀσωμάτου γεννῶν λόγος ib.305a16, cf. Plot.6.6.9; of numbers, produce a total, Ph. 1.347.
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, 48
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