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|Definition=εως, ἡ, ([[γενέσθαι]]) <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[origin]], [[source]], Ὠκεανόν τε θεῶν γένεσιν <span class="bibl">Il.14.201</span>; <b class="b3">Ὠκεανοῦ, ὅς περ γ. πάντεσσι τέτυκται</b> ib.<span class="bibl">246</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Tht.</span> 180d</span>; [[beginning]], in dual, τοῖν γενεσέοιν ἡ ἑτέρα <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Phd.</span>71e</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> [[manner of birth]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.204</span>, <span class="bibl">6.69</span>, etc.; [[race]], [[descent]], <span class="bibl">Id.2.146</span>; πατρὸς οὖσα γένεσιν Εὐρύτου <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Tr.</span>380</span>; <b class="b3">κατὰ γένεσιν</b>, opp. <b class="b3">καθ' υἱοθεσίαν</b>, <span class="title">IG</span>12(1).181 (Rhodes). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> Astrol., [[nativity]], [[geniture]], AP 11.164 (Lucill.), <span class="bibl">183</span> (Id.), <span class="title">Epigr.Gr.</span>314.21 (Smyrna), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PLond.</span>1.98r60</span> (i A. D.), <span class="bibl">Vett.Val.216.6</span>: hence, [[lot]], [[fortune]], <span class="bibl">Astramps.<span class="title">Orac.</span> 16.8</span>,<span class="bibl">23.7</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> [[production]], [[generation]], [[coming into being]], opp. [[ὄλεθρος]], <span class="bibl">Parm.8.21</span>; more usually opp. [[φθορά]], <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Phlb.</span>55a</span>, etc.; <b class="b3">περὶ γενέσεως καὶ φθορᾶς</b>, title of work by Arist.: generally, [[formation]], πύου <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Aph.</span>2.47</span>; [[origination]], [[making]], <b class="b3">ἱματίων, περὶ τὰ ἀμφιέσματα</b>, <span class="bibl">Pl. <span class="title">Plt.</span>281b</span>,<span class="bibl">3</span>; γένεσις καὶ [[οὐσία]] [[δικαιοσύνη]]ς <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">R.</span>359a</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> = [[τὸ γίγνεσθαι]], [[becoming]], opp. [[οὐσία]], ib.<span class="bibl">525b</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ti.</span>29c</span>, <span class="bibl">Procl.<span class="title">Inst.</span>45</span>,al. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">IV</span> concrete, [[creation]], i.e. [[all created things]], <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Phdr.</span>245e</span>; γένεσις καὶ [[κόσμος]] <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ti.</span>29e</span>, freq. in Ph., as <span class="bibl">1.3</span>,al., cf. <span class="bibl">Plot.6.3.2</span>, etc. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">V</span> [[race]], [[kind]] or [[sort]] of animals, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Plt.</span>265b</span>, etc.; [[family]], <b class="b3">δίδυμος γένεσις</b> of the [[Spartan]] [[king]]s, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Lg.</span>691d</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">VI</span> [[generation]], [[age]], <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Phdr.</span>252d</span>: pl., <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Plt.</span>310d</span>; <b class="b3">κατὰ περίστασιν τῆς γενέσεως</b> [[according]] to the [[circumstance]]s of his [[time]], <span class="bibl">Porph.<span class="title">Sent.</span>32</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">VII</span> [[παιδοπόρος]] γένεσις = [[genitalia muliebria]], AP9.311 (Phil.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">VIII</span> Math., [[generation]] of a [[figure]], <span class="bibl">Papp.234.4</span>,al. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">b</span> [[origin]] of a [[spiral]], <span class="bibl">Id.272.7</span>; ἡ ἐν τῇ γενέσει εὐθεῖα = the [[initial]] [[line]], <span class="bibl">Id.286.22</span>.</span>