Old Age personified, a fatherless child of Nyx in Hesiod's genealogy of mortal afflictions.1
I
Night bore hateful Geras without a father, placing the wasting of age beside Deceit, Friendship and Strife among the powers that accompany mortal existence.2⚖
II
Hyginus' genealogy calls him Senectus and gives him Erebus as father as well as Nox as mother.3⚖
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