- ἔγγονος
- ἔγγονος, ὁ, properly,A grandson, D.H.6.37, etc.: [full] ἐγγόνη, ἡ, grand-daughter, IGRom.4.882 ([place name] Themisonium), Artem.4.69, Lyd.Mag.2.1; also ἔγγονος, ἡ, Plu.Per.3.2 simply, = ἔκγονος, descendant, Pl.R.364e, D.19.48,54, etc.; ἔκγ- is v.l. in ll.cc., and may be right in Arist.Pol.1335a13, cf. ib.b30;
τὰ ἔγγονα
issue,Inscr.Cos
36a4, PFreib.10.8, etc.; of animals, Ph.2.396, al.;Ἔρως πυρὸς ἔγγονε APl.4.212
(Alph.).3 productive, κακίας, μνήμης, Callistr.Stat. 10. [ἔγγ- may represent ἔκγ- (q.v.), both forms are found in [dialect] Att. Inscrr. up to ca. 300 B.C.; ἔγγ- is rare in Hellenistic Greek, OGI49.12 (iii B. C.), PTeb.124.25,33 (ii B. C.); but more freq. later; ἐνγ- is written in SIG333.25 (Samos, iv B. C.), dub. in CIG3185 ([place name] Smyrna).]
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