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|txtha=or [[γηράω]]: 1st aorist ἐγήρασα; from Homer down; (cf. Winer's Grammar, 92 (88); Donaldson, New Crat. § 387); to [[grow]] [[old]]: to [[fail]] from [[age]], be obsolescent: παλαιουμενος — the [[latter]] (used [[only]] of things) marking the [[lapse]] of [[time]], [[while]] γηρασκων carries [[with]] it a [[suggestion]] of the waning [[strength]], the [[decay]], [[incident]] to [[old]] [[age]] (cf. Schmidt, [[chapter]] 46,7; Theophrastus, caus. pl. 6,7, 5): [[that]] [[which]] is [[becoming]] [[old]] and faileth for [[age]] etc.)).