πάτρα: Difference between revisions

|Definition=Ion. and Ep. πάτρη, ἡ, (πατήρ) <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[fatherland]], [[native land]], <span class="bibl">Il. 12.243</span>, <span class="bibl">24.500</span>, <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">O.</span> 12.16</span>, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span>665</span>, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ph.</span>222</span>, <span class="title">IG</span>42(1).244.8 (Epid., epigr., iii B.C.), etc., used in parody of Trag. by <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ach.</span> 147</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ra.</span> 1427</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Th.</span>136</span>, <span class="bibl">Alex.193</span>, <span class="bibl">Diph.73.9</span> :—[[πατρίς]] (q.v.) was the common prose form, but Hdt. uses [[πάτρη]] in <span class="bibl">6.126</span>, <span class="bibl">128</span>, [[πατρίς]] in <span class="bibl">3.140</span>, <span class="bibl">8.61</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> <b class="b2">fatherhood, descent from a common father</b>, <b class="b3">ἀμφοτέροισιν όμὸν γένος ἠδ' ἴα π</b>. <span class="bibl">Il.13.354</span> (nowh. else in this sense in Hom.) ; <b class="b3">βασιλεὺς Ἰώνων ἀνὰ πάτρην</b> by [[hereditary descent]], IGRom.4.1730 (Samos, ii A.D.) : hence, </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[body of persons claiming descent from a]] [[common ancestor]], [[house]], [[clan]], π. Μειδυλιδᾶν <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">P.</span>8.38</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">N.</span>6.36</span>, <span class="bibl">8.46</span>, <span class="title">IG</span>5(2).495 (Megalopolis) ; also, of a [[union of families]] recognized by the state, <b class="b3">ἰέναι αὐτοὺς καὶ ἐπὶ πάτρην ἣν ἂν πείθωσιν</b> ib.12(8).267.10 (Thasos). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> <b class="b2">father's sister, aunt</b>, IGRom.4.621 (Temenothyrae, iii A.D.) :—in form πατρεία, Keil-Premerstein [[Zweiter Bericht]] No. 138 (nr. Thyatira, ii A.D.) ; cf. [[πιάτρα]], [[πινάτρα]].</span>