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χρυ_σό-γονος , ον,
A.born or begotten of gold, γενεά, i.e. the Persians, because (by the legend) they were descended from Perseus, who was begotten of Zeus in the form of a shower of gold, A.Pers.79 (lyr., Sch., -νόμου cod.M); of Perseus, Orph.L.551.
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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