γένεσις
Ὁ θάνατος οὐθὲν πρὸς ἡμᾶς, ἐπειδήπερ ὅταν μὲν ἡμεῖς ὦμεν, ὁ θάνατος οὐ πάρεστιν, ὅταν δὲ ὁ θάνατος παρῇ, τόθ' ἡμεῖς οὐκ ἐσμέν. → Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
English (LSJ)
εως, ἡ, (γενέσθαι)
A origin, source, Ὠκεανόν τε θεῶν γένεσιν Il.14.201; Ὠκεανοῦ, ὅς περ γ. πάντεσσι τέτυκται ib.246, cf. Pl.Tht. 180d; beginning, in dual, τοῖν γενεσέοιν ἡ ἑτέρα Id.Phd.71e. II manner of birth, Hdt.1.204, 6.69, etc.; race, descent, Id.2.146; πατρὸς οὖσα γένεσιν Εὐρύτου S.Tr.380; κατὰ γένεσιν, opp. καθ' υἱοθεσίαν, IG12(1).181 (Rhodes). 2 Astrol., nativity, geniture, AP 11.164 (Lucill.), 183 (Id.), Epigr.Gr.314.21 (Smyrna), PLond.1.98r60 (i A. D.), Vett.Val.216.6: hence, lot, fortune, Astramps.Orac. 16.8,23.7. III production, generation, coming into being, opp. ὄλεθρος, Parm.8.21; more usu. opp. φθορά, Pl.Phlb.55a, etc.; περὶ γενέσεως καὶ φθορᾶς, title of work by Arist.: generally, formation, πύου Hp.Aph.2.47; origination, making, ἱματίων, περὶ τὰ ἀμφιέσματα, Pl. Plt.281b,3; γ. καὶ οὐσία δικαιοσύνης Id.R.359a. 2 = τὸ γίγνεσθαι, becoming, opp. οὐσία, ib.525b, Ti.29c, Procl.Inst.45,al. IV concrete, creation, i.e. all created things, Pl.Phdr.245e; γ. καὶ κόσμος Id.Ti.29e, freq. in Ph., as 1.3,al., cf. Plot.6.3.2, etc. V race, kind or sort of animals, Pl.Plt.265b, etc.; family, δίδυμος γ. of the Spartan kings, Id.Lg.691d. VI generation, age, Id.Phdr.252d: pl., Id.Plt.310d; κατὰ περίστασιν τῆς γ. according to the circumstances of his time, Porph.Sent.32. VII παιδοπόρος γ. genitalia muliebria, AP9.311 (Phil.). VIII Math., generation of a figure, Papp.234.4,al. b origin of a spiral, Id.272.7; ἡ ἐν γ. εὐθεῖα the initial line, Id.286.22.
German (Pape)
[Seite 482] ἡ (γενέσθαι), Ursprung, Entstehung; Hom. dreimal, Iliad. 14, 246 Ὠκεανοῦ, ὅς περ γένεσις πάντεσσι τέτυκται, 14, 201. 302 Ὠκεανόν τε, θεῶν γένεσιν, καὶ μητέρα Τηθύν; – Her. 2, 146; πατρὸς μὲν οὖσα γένεσιν Εὐρύτου Soph. Tr. 379; oft bei Plat. u. Folgdn, Ggstz φθορά Plat. Parm. 136 b; oft das Werden, dem Sein, οὐσία, entgegengesetzt; ἡ ἐκ τοῦ ἔρωτος Crat. 398 c; ἡ τοῦ ἀφροῦ, aus Schaum, ibid. 406 c. Allgem., Schöpfung, καὶ κόσμος Plat. Tim. 29 c; Phaedr. 245 e; das Geschaffene, Geschlecht, τὴν γένεσιν ἄκερων εἶναι Polit. 265 b; ἡ νῦν γένεσις καὶ τροφή Lgg. V, 740 e; ἡ τῶν προγόνων γ. οὐκ ἔπηλυς οὖσα Menex. 287 b; τῶν βασιλέων Legg. III, 691 d; Geschlecht als Zeitbestimmung, ἐν πολλαῖς γενέσεσιν Polit. 310 d, wo hernach ἐπὶ γενεὰς πολλάς steht; vgl. Phaedr. 248 d. Auch von Produkten der Kunst, ἡ τῶν ἱματίων, ὀργάνων καὶ ἔργων Plat. Polit. 281 b Legg. XI, 920 e. Bei Philipp. 34 (IX, 311) = Geschlechtstheile.
