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|Definition=<span class="bibl">Emp.17.27</span>, <span class="bibl">22.9</span>, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span>853</span> (but γέννᾱ in lyr. passages of E., as <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Hec.</span>159</span>), ης, ἡ:—poet. for [[γένος]], <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[descent]], [[birth]], [[origin]], γέννᾳ μεγαλυνομένων <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span>892</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ag.</span>760</span> (lyr.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[origin]], [<b class="b3">τοῦ ὄντος</b>] <span class="bibl">Parm. 8.6</span>; διέχειν γέννῃ τε κρήσει τε <span class="bibl">Emp.22.7</span>; γῆ γ. πάντων <span class="bibl">Secund. <span class="title">Sent.</span>15</span>; [[production]], πύου <span class="bibl">Aret.<span class="title">SD</span>1.14</span>; [[ὑγρῶν]] ib.<span class="bibl">15</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> [[offspring]], [[son]], <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">O.</span>7.23</span>; θνᾴσκοντα γέννας [[ἄτερ]] <span class="bibl">A. <span class="title">Th.</span>748</span>; λαγίνα γέννα <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ag.</span>119</span>; [[generation]], πέμπτη δ' ἀπ' αὐτοῦ γέννα <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Pr.</span>853</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">774</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[race]], [[family]], <b class="b3">οὐρανία γέννα</b> ib. <span class="bibl">165</span>; ἀρσένων γέννα <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Med.</span>428</span> (lyr.): rare in Prose, ἡ τοῦ πέρατος γέννα <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Phlb.</span>25d</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Is.<span class="title">Fr.</span> 136</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> [[creation]], [[creature]], PMag.Leid.V.7.14. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">4</span> personified, [[creative]] [[force]], ib. <span class="title">W.</span>5.3. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> of the Moon, [[coming forth]], <span class="bibl">Ach.Tat.<span class="title">Intr.Arat.</span>21</span>, Sch.<span class="bibl">Arat.735</span>, Paul.Al.<span class="title">G.</span>4.</span>