γένη, ‘races,’ in the narrower sense of ‘houses’ or ‘families,’ such as the princely house to which Philoctetes belonged: cp. 15. 533ὑμετέρου δ᾽ οὐκ ἔστι γένος βασιλεύτερον ἄλλο. Not ‘generations,’ γενεαί ( 1186): nor, again, ‘sons of men,’—a sense which could not be justified by the bold phrase in 784, Τέκμησσα, δύσμορον γένος. In Her. 3. 159 read ἵνα σφι γενεὴ (not γένεα) ὑπογίνηται.