LogeionPerseus analysis of γέρον:
γέρων (old man): masc voc sg
LSJ entry
γέρων
γέρων,
οντος,
ὁ,
2. γέροντες, οἱ,
Elders, Chiefs,
κίκλησκεν δὲ γέροντας ἀριστῆας Παναχαιῶν Il. 2.404 sq., cf. 9.574,
Od. 2.14;
later, Senators,
esp. at Sparta, Hdt. 1.65,
6.57,
Pl. Lg. 692a,
IG 22.687,
Arist. Pol. 1265b38 (sg. γέροντι IG 5(1).1346,
but usu. γερουσίας,
q. v.); in other states, as at Elis, Arist. Pol. 1306a17,
cf. 1272a7,
OGI 479.11 (
Dorylaeum).
II. as Adj.,
old,
γέρον σάκος Od. 22.184;
γ. γράμμα A. Fr. 331;
more freq. in masc., γ. πατήρ Il. 1.358,
Od. 18.53;
ἀνὴρ γ. Thgn. 1351;
γ. χαλκός Simon. 144;
γ. λόγος A. Ag. 750 (lyr.); ἵππος S. El. 25;
πόνος Id. OC 1258 (codd. but πίνος Scaliger, edd.); οἶνος Alex. 167.5,
cf. Eub. 124;
πέπλος, λέμβος,
Theoc. 7.17,
21.12:
rarely in Prose, οἱ γέροντες τῶν ἰχθύων Arist. HA 607b28;
of stags, ib.611b3;
Ἀντίγονος ὁ γ. Antigonus the Elder,
Plu. Pel. 2:
neut. pl., γέροντα βουλεύεις (for ἀρχαῖα)
S. Fr. 794.