The corpus record

γεραρός

geraros

of reverend bearing, majestic

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Where it lives

Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k
Memorabilia 2 · 0.56/10k
Meditations 1 · 0.34/10k
Iliad 2 · 0.18/10k

What it meant — LSJ

of reverend bearing, majestic, of honour

of reverend bearing, majestic, Il. 3.170; γεραρώτερος ἦεν Ὀδυσσεύς ib. 211; γεραρὴ τράπεζα a table of honour, Xenoph. 1.9; γεραραῖς χερσί IG 14.818; ἀνὴρ γ. τὸ εἶδος Plu. Alex. 26; τὸ γ. τοῦ ἤθους M.Ant. 1.15. Adv. -ρῶς, μέλπουσιν AP 9.692.

later, = γεραιός, A. Ag. 722 (lyr.); γ. τοκῆες IG 3.1335, Q.S. 9.90.

3 elders, priestesses of Dionysus

γεραροί, οἱ, elders, A. Supp. 667 (lyr.); but γεραραί priestesses of Dionysus is f. l. for γέραιραι in D. 59.73, al.; cf. Μητρὸς . . πρόπολος σεμνή τε γέραιρα IG 2.2116, and γεραίρας (acc. pl.) is prob. l. in Il. 6.270, cf. 87, 287 (cf. Sch. BT); cf. EM 227.35. (γέραιρα old fem. of γεραρός; cf. χίμαιρα: χίμαρος.)

In the wild

γεραροῖς · gerarois Aeschylus, Agamemnon 716–722
γεραρόν · geraron Iliad 3.170
γεραρώτερος · gerarōteros Iliad 3.211
γεραρόν · geraron Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 1.15.1 (DIORISIS sentence 54)
γεραρὸν · geraron Xenophon, Memorabilia 3.1.4 (DIORISIS sentence 952)
γεραρώτερος · gerarōteros Xenophon, Memorabilia 3.1.4 (DIORISIS sentence 952)

Where it came from

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