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γονή , ἡ, (γενέσθαι)
A.offspring, “οἱ οὔ τι παίδων γ. γένετο κρειόντων” Il. 24.539; “γ. Ἀρκεισιάδαο” Od.4.755; τέκνων δίπτυχος γ. two children, E.Med.1136: pl., “εἰσὶ χἁτέροις γοναὶ κακαί” S.OC1192; “γ. κατηκόους φύσαντες” Id.Ant.641; of animals, “ταύρων γοναί” A.Fr.194; ἐν . . τετ ρασκελεῖ γ., i. e. among quadrupeds, S.Fr.941.10; fruits of the earth, Pl.Ax.371c.
2. race, stock, family, A.Ag.1565 (lyr.); “ὦ γονῇ γενναῖε” S.OT1469, cf.El.156 (lyr.); “ἁ Δαρδάνου γ.” E.Tr.1290: pl., “μηδὲν ὢν γοναῖσι” S.Aj.1094; parentage, “ἐξευρεῖν γονάς” E.Ion328.
3. generation, “τρίταισιν ἐν γ.” Pi.P.4.143; “τρίτος . . πρὸς δέκ᾽ ἄλλαισιν γ.” A.Pr.774; “τριτοσπόρῳ γονῇ” Id.Pers.818.
II. that which engenders, seed, Hes.Op.733, Hdt.3.101, 109, Hp.Genit.3, Arist.GA726a18, etc.: pl., Pi.N.7.84, S.Ant.950 (lyr.).
2. organs of generation, generally, Hp.Art.45, Mochl.1 (also restricted to the womb, Ruf.Onom.193, Gal.2.889); “πρὶν . . μητρὸς ἐκ γονῆς μολεῖν” E.Ph.1597.
III. act of generation, Pi.I.7(6).7; “κατὰ φύσιν γονὰς ποιεῖσθαι” Aeschin.3.111.
2. of the mother, child-birth, E.Ph.355, Theoc.17.44.
3. of the child, birth, “ἐκ γονῆς” Hp.Epid.4.31; “γονῇ φῦναι γεραιτέρᾳ” S. OC1294; “γοναὶ ζῴων” Arist.Mu.399a28.
4. cure for sterility, Paul. Aeg.3.74.
IV. Pythag. name for unity, Theol.Ar.6.
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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