A.to feed or cherish in old age, esp. one's parents, E. Med.1033, Alc.663; also “τέκνα” Demoph.Sent.43:—Pass., to be cherished when old, Ar.Ach.678 (γηρωβοσκήσει is read in Lib.Decl. 49.22; γηρωβοσκήσαντα is v.l. in Stob.3.1.38; cf. γηρο-κομεῖον, -κομέω, -κομία, -κόμος: such forms might be due to contr. of γηραο-, but are more prob. misspellings).
γηροβοσκ-έω ,
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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