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|auten=([[root]] γα), aor. iter. [[γενέσκετο]], perf. γέγονε, 3 pl. [[γεγάᾶσι]], inf. [[γεγάμεν]], [[part]]. acc. [[sing]]. [[γεγαῶτα]], pl. -ῶτας, plup. γεγόνει: [[become]], (of men) be [[born]]; the [[word]] admits of [[great]] [[variety]] in [[paraphrase]], [[but]] [[never]] departs [[from]] its [[meaning]] of [[come]] [[into]] [[being]]; ἄνθεα γίγνεται, ‘[[grow]]’; κλαγγὴ γένετο, ‘arose,’ ‘[[was]] [[heard]]’; ποθὴ Δαναοἶσι γένετο, ‘[[filled]],’ ‘[[they]] [[felt]]’; [[νῶι]] νόστον ἔδωκε νηυσὶ [[γενέσθαι]], i. e. the [[accomplishment]] of it, Od. 4.173 ; [[οὐκ]] ἂν ἔμοιγε | ἐλπομένῳ τὸ γένοιτο, I [[may]] [[hope]], [[but]] [[this]] [[will]] [[not]] ‘[[happen]],’ Od. 3.228 ; πάντα γιγνόμενος, [[Proteus]], ‘[[turning]] [[into]]’ [[every]] [[shape]], Od. 4.417 ; ἐπὶ νηυσὶ [[γενέσθαι]], ‘[[get]]’ [[upon]] the ships, and [[thus]] [[often]] implying [[motion]], e. g. πρὸ ὁδοῦ γένοντο, ‘progressed,’ Il. 4.382; [[never]] of [[course]] the [[same]] as [[εἶναι]], [[but]] the perf. is [[sometimes]] a [[strong]] equivalent of the [[verb]] of [[existence]], τοῖς οἳ [[νῦν]] [[γεγάᾶσι]], [[who]] ‘[[live]]’ [[now]], Od. 24.84, Od. 13.160, etc.