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διογενής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: διογενής διογενές

Structure: διογενη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: gi/gnomai

Sense

  1. sprung from Zeus, ordained and upheld by Zeus

Examples

  • ἀποκεκλῄκαμεν διογενεῖσ θεοὺσ μηκέτι τὴν ἐμὴν διαπερᾶν πόλιν, μηδέ <γέ> τιν’ ἱερόθυτον ἀνὰ δάπεδον ἔτι τῇδε βροτῶν θεοῖσι πέμπειν καπνόν. (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, antistrophe 11)
  • παντὶ τρόπῳ, Διογενεῖσ θεοί, πόλιν καὶ στρατὸν Καδμογενῆ ῥύεσθε. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, strophe 16)
  • νῦν ὅτε καί, θεοὶ διογενεῖσ, κλύοιτ’ εὐ‐ κταῖα γένει χεούσασ· (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, choral, strophe 11)
  • Γεγόνασι δὲ Διογένεισ πέντε· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, , Kef. b'. DIOGENHS 62:1)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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