Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, γ , γενει-αστήρ , γενν-αῖος

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A.true to one's birth or descent (“εὐγενὲς μέν ἐστι τὸ ἐξ ἀγαθοῦ γένους, γενναῖον δὲ τὸ μὴ ἐξιστάμενον ἐκ τῆς αὑτοῦ φύσεως” Arist.HA488b19, cf. Rh.1390b22), “οὔ μοι γενναῖον ἀλυσκάζοντι μάχεσθαι” Il.5.253 (nowhere else in Hom.); “γενναῖον δέ σοι ταχέως ὑπακούειν” Ar.Fr.28 D.: hence,

I. of persons, high-born, noble, Archil.107, etc.; “τέκνα” Hdt.1.173; “ὦ γονῇ γενναῖε” S.OT1469; “ἐσθλοὺς ἔκ τε γενναίων γεγῶτας” Id.Fr.107.3; “γενναῖός τις ἑπτὰ πάππους ἔχων ἀποφῆναι” Pl.Tht.174e; οἱ γ., opp. οἱ ἀγεννεῖς, Arist.Pol. 1296b22; so of animals, well-bred, “σκύλαξ” Pl.R. 375a, X.Cyr.1.4.15; opp. ἀγεννής, Arist.HA558b16.

2. noble in mind, high-minded, Hdt.3.140 (Sup.), S.El.129 (lyr.), etc.; τὸ γ., = γενναιότης, Id.OC 569; of actions, noble, Hdt.1.37; “λῆμα γ.” Pi.P.8.44; “τλάσας τὸ γ.” S. OC1640, cf. E.Alc.624; γ. ἔπος, λόγοι, πόνοι, S.Ph.1402, E.Heracl. 537, HF357 (lyr.).

3. as a form of polite speech, γενναῖος εἶ you are very good, Ar.Th.220.

b. ὦ γενναῖε, common form of address in Pl., as Grg.494e, cf. S.Ph.801; ironical, D.H.7.46.

II. of things, good of their kind, excellent, “μέλος” A.Fr.281.5; σταφυλή, σῦκα, Pl. Lg.844e; γενναίου . . ἄξιον οὐθενός of no great use, Ath.Mech.31.2; ironical, “γένει γ. σοφιστική” Pl.Sph.231b (cf. 1.1), etc.; genuine, intense, “δύη” S.Aj.938, etc.; violent, “σεισμός” Philostr. VA6.38; “θάλπη” Jul. Or. 2.101d.

b. γενναῖον: τὸ τῆς γενέσεως ἀρχηγόν, Hsch.

III. Adv. -αίως nobly, Hdt.7.139, Th.2.41, Pl.La. 196b, Men.672; “ὅρκος, πῆγμα γ. παγέν” A.Ag.1198; ironical, “μάλα γ. ἐπιλαθόμενον ὧν εὖ πάθοι” Jul. Or.3.125c: Comp. “-οτέρως” Pl.Tht.166c, Ps.-Callisth. 1.38: Sup. “-ότατα” E.Cyc.657 (lyr.).

2. irreg. Sup. “γενναιέστατος” Dinol. 10.

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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