γονεύς
έως, ὁ
A.
begetter, father, mostly in pl., parents, h.Cer. 240, Hes. Op. 235, Pi. P. 6.27, Pl. Smp. 178b, etc.: in sg., of a serpent, Hdt. 3.109; of a man, Pl. R. 457d; φράζε τίνος γονέως IG 12 (5).310: generally, progenitor, ancestor, πέμπτος γ. ancestor in the fifth generation, Hdt. 1.91, cf. Is. 8.32; οἱ ἄνωθεν γ. Arist. GA 722a8. (Nom. pl. γονεῖες Histria 7.27: acc. pl. γονέας Antiph. 261: dat. pl. γονεῖσι SIG 1267.24 (Ios, iii A. D.).)