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ἀγένειος , ον, (γένειον)
A.beardless, boyish; ἀγένειόν τι εἰρηκέναι to speak like a boy, Luc.J. Tr.29; τὸ ἀ. Id.Eun.9. Adv. “-είως, ἔχειν” Philostr.VS1.8.1.
II. ἀγένειοι, οἱ, boys within the age to enter for certain prizes at the games, Pi.O.8.54, 9.89, cf. Ar.Eq.1373, Lys. 21.4, Pl.Lg.833c, IG2.965, al., Paus.6.6.3.
III. (γενεά) childless, GDI1891.29 (Delph.), Hsch.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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    • Aristophanes, Knights, 1373
    • Lysias, Defence against a Charge of Taking Bribes, 4
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 6.6.3
    • Plato, Laws, 833c
    • Lucian, Eunuchus, 9
    • Philostratus the Athenian, Lives of the Sophists, 1.8.1
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