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Meaning of geronte by Francisco Valdez Mendoza




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1 Adjective. Elderly person. 2 In the plural, substantive applied in the old Greece to elderly and notable men who constituted the Council of Agamemnón or Agamenón: mythological character that following the abduction of Paris to Elena and her shelter in Troy, led the expedition against - and subsequent defeat - the Trojans. Then Clytemnestra, Elena ( a sister and the wife of Menelaus, brother of Agamnenón ) murdered the caudillo and the Trojan prophetess Cassandra, lover of this. The word derives from the Greek adjective "géroon, géroontos": nominative cases: old, and genitive singular: old.

  

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