Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

προγενής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: προγενής προγενές

Structure: προγενη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: gi/gnomai

Sense

  1. born before, primaeval, earlier in birth, older, our predecessors, eldest-born

Examples

  • ὦ γῆσ Θήβησ ἄστυ πατρῷον καὶ θεοὶ προγενεῖσ, ἄγομαι δὴ κοὐκέτι μέλλω. (Sophocles, Antigone, episode, anapests5)

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

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