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γερούσιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: γερούσιος γερούσιη γερούσιον

Structure: γερουσι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ge/rwn

Sense

  1. for or befitting the seniors or chiefs, taken by them

Examples

  • ἀλλά σ’ Ἕκτοροσ πρεσβεύμαθ’ αἵ τε μυρίαι γερουσίαι ἔπεισαν ἐλθεῖν κἀπικουρῆσαι φίλοισ. (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, antistrophe 1 2:6)
  • ἀλλὰ μὴν καὶ ὁμόνοιά γε μέγιστόν τε ἀγαθὸν δοκεῖ ταῖσ πόλεσιν εἶναι καὶ πλειστάκισ ἐν αὐταῖσ αἵ τε γερουσίαι καὶ οἱ ἄριστοι ἄνδρεσ παρακελεύονται τοῖσ πολίταισ ὁμονοεῖν, καὶ πανταχοῦ ἐν τῇ Ἑλλάδι νόμοσ κεῖται τοὺσ πολίτασ ὀμνύναι ὁμονοήσειν, καὶ πανταχοῦ ὀμνύουσι τὸν ὁρ́κον τοῦτον· (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 4 17:1)

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

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