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γηράσκω , fut. γηράσομαι [α_] Critias 1.5 (and in compds., ἐγ-, κατα-, συγ-, Th.6.18, Ar.Eq.1308, E.Fr.1058);
A.“γηράσω” Pl.R.393e: poet. inf. “γηρα_σέμεν” Simon.85.9: aor. ἐγήρα_σα (κατ-) Hdt.2.146, Pl.Tht.202d (also causal, cf. infr. 11): acc. fem. part. γηράσασαν (v.l. γηρᾶσαν) Hdt.7.114: pf. “γεγήρα_κα” S.OC727, etc.:—also γηράω X. Cyr.4.1.15, Arist.EN1135b2, Men.481.14, Plu.2.911b, part. “γηρῶν” Epict.Fr.3: aor. 2 (as if from γήρημι or γήρα_μι）“ ἐγήρα” Il.7.148, 17.197, Od.14.67, (κατ-) Hdt.6.72; inf. γηράναι [α^] A.Ch.908 (cum Sch.), S.OC870 (so EM230.53, but “γηρᾶναι” Moer.115), part. “γηράς” Il.17.197, dat. pl. “γηράντεσσι” Hes.Op.188, gen. pl. <ὑπερ-> γηράντων dub. in Ael.NA7.17; also γηρείς, έντος, Xenoph.9:—Med., “γηράσκομαι” Hes.Fr.171:—Pass., (ὑπερ-）“ γηραθείς” Ps.-Callisth.1.25:—grow old, and in aor. and pf., to be so, κηρύσσων γήρασκε grew old in his office of herald, Il.17.325, cf. 2.663, etc.; of things, “ὄγχνη ἐπ᾽ ὄγχνῃ γ.” Od.7.120; “χρόνος γηράσκων” A.Pr.981; “πάλιν γὰρ αὖθις παῖς ὁ γ. ἀνήρ” S.Fr.487; “μετὰ τὴν δόσιν γ. χάρις” Men.Mon.347; “τὸ τῆσδε χώρας οὐ γεγήρακε σθένος” S.OC727: c. acc. cogn., βίον τοιοῦτον γηράναι ib.870:—so in Med., Hes.Fr.171.
II. causal in aor. 1 ἐγήρα_σα, bring to old age, “ἐγήρασάν με τροφῇ” A.Supp.894; γηράσας πόδα (but perh. acc. cogn.) AP6.94 (Phil.). (Akin to γέρων, γῆρας.)
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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