γένεσις (genesis)
Short definition (LSJ): manner of birth,
Full entry: Lexicon.
173 occurrences of this form in 50 works (dictionary form exactly as written, accents ignored, v/u and j/i as single letters; inflected forms not included).
Works using this form
- Metaphysics
- The Six Enneads: Enneads V-VI
- Laws
- Timaeus
- Nicomachean Ethics
- The Six Enneads: Enneads III-IV
- Isis and Osiris
- On the Allegories of the Sacred Laws
- On the Posterity of Cain
- Philebus
- Wisdom of Solomon
- On the Mysteries
- On the Incorruptibility of the World
- On the Sacrifice of Abel and Cain
- On the question, Who is the Heir of Divine Things
- Phaedo
- On the Face in the Orb of the Moon
- Library of History
- Meditations
- On the Confusion of Languages
- On the Creation of the World
- On the Life of the Wise Man made perfect by Instruction; or, on the Unwritten Law, that is to say, on Abraham
- On the Principle that the Worse is accustomed to be always plotting against the Better
- On the Unchangeableness of God
- On the doctrine that Dreams are sent from God, Books 1-2
- On the question why certain Names in the Holy Scriptures are changed
- Menexenus
- Statesman
- The Six Enneads: Enneads I-II
- On Abstinence from Animal Food
- Discourses
- Histories (Books 1–2)
- Iliad
- The Jewish War, Book 1
- About the Planting of Noah
- Concerning the Ten Commandments, which are the Heads ofthe Law
- On Fugitives
- On Rewards and Punishments
- On Three Virtues, that is to say, on Courage, Humanity, and Repentance
- On the Cherubim; and on the Flaming Sword; and on the First-Born Child of Man, Cain
- On the Giants
- On the Life of Moses: Books 1-3
- On the Meeting for the sake of receiving Instructions
- Phaedrus
- Symposium
- Theaetetus
- Against Epicurus: No Pleasant Life
- Platonic Questions
- Histories
- Life of Pythagoras
Example passages
…πᾶσα γένεσις καὶ φθορὰ ἔκ τινος ἑνὸς ἢ καὶ πλειόνων ἐστίν, διὰ τί τοῦτο συμβαίνει καὶ τί τὸ αἴτιον; οὐ γὰρ δὴ τό γε ὑποκείμενον αὐτὸ ποιεῖ μεταβάλλειν ἑαυτό· λέγω δʼ οἷον οὔτε τὸ ξύλον οὔτε ὁ χαλκὸς αἴτιος τοῦ……
……θεοῦ ἐπιλαθέσθαι, καὶ μοίρας ἐκεῖθεν οὔσας καὶ ὅλως ἐκείνου ἀγνοῆσαι καὶ ἑαυτὰς καὶ ἐκεῖνον; ἀρχὴ μὲν οὖν αὐταῖς τοῦ κακοῦ ἡ τόλμα καὶ ἡ γένεσις καὶ ἡ πρώτη ἑτερότης καὶ τὸ βουληθῆναι δὲ ἑαυτῶν εἶναι. τῷ δὴ αὐτεξουσίῳ ἐπειδήπερ ἐφάνησαν ἡσθεῖσαι πολλῷ τῷ κινεῖσθαι παῤ αὑτῶν κεχρημέναι, τὴν ἐναντίαν δραμοῦσαι καὶ πλείστην ἀπόστασιν……
……καὶ τούτῳ δὴ τὸ ἐναντίον ἦν ᾠδῆς ἕτερον εἶδος—θρήνους δέ τις ἂν αὐτοὺς μάλιστα ἐκάλεσεν—καὶ παίωνες ἕτερον, καὶ ἄλλο, Διονύσου γένεσις οἶμαι, διθύραμβος λεγόμενος. νόμους τε αὐτὸ τοῦτο τοὔνομα ἐκάλουν, ᾠδὴν ὥς τινα ἑτέραν· ἐπέλεγον δὲ κιθαρῳδικούς. τούτων δὴ διατεταγμένων καὶ ἄλλων τινῶν, οὐκ ἐξῆν ἄλλο…