γενέθλιος

A. of or belonging to one's birth, γ. δόσις a birthday gift, A. Eu. 7; ἡ γενέθλιος ἡμέρα birthday, Epicur. Fr. 217, OGl 111.29 (ii B. C.), etc.; γενεθλία ἡμέρα ib.222.6 (iii B. C.): pl., ib.493.20 (ii A. D.); τῇ γενεθλίᾳ POxy. 494.24 (ii A. D.); and ἡ γενέθλιος, without ἡμέρα, CIG 3957b, Luc. Dem.Enc. 2; γενέθλιον ἦμαρ AP 6.261 (Crin.); also ἀγὼν γ. τοῦ θεάτρου to celebrate a birthday, ClG 4342d (Aspendus); τὰ γ. birthday feast, SIG 463.11; γ. θύειν offer birthday offerings, E. Ion 653, Pl. Alc. 1.121c; ἑστιᾶν Luc. Herm. 11, cf. BGU 362x9 (iii A. D.), etc.

II. of one's race or family, esp. of tutelary gods, Ζεὺς γ. Pi. O. 8.16, P. 4.167; γ. δαίμων Id. O. 13.105; γ. θεοί A. Th. 639 (but in Pl. Lg. 729c, 879d, presiding over generation, and in D.H. 1.67, = Penates); αἷμα γ. kindred blood, E. Or. 89; γ. ἀραί a parent's curse, A. Ch. 912.

III. giving birth, generative, γενέθλιος ἀκτίνων πατήρ, i.e. the Sun, Pi. O. 7.70; γ. πόρος thy natal stream, A. Eu. 293; βλάσται γ. S. OC 972; ἀνέλυσα γενέθλιον . . [δελφύν], of her first child, Hymn.Is. 17.