Bad birth.
*)age/neia: h( dusge/neia.
The headword literally means lack of birth. It is first attested in the
Politics of
Aristotle 6.1317b40 (web address 1 below) where
a)ge/neia,
peni/a and
banausi/a are the defining characteristics, from a hostile standpoint, of democracy.
Similar entry in
Hesychius, but in the accusative case and with the two nouns reversed.
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