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|Definition=ἡ, dat.<br><span class="bld">A</span> φράτρῃ ''OGI''483.87 (Pergam., ii B. C.), Ion. [[φρήτρη]], Dor. [[πάτρα]] ([[quod vide|q.v.]]), Delph. [[πατριά]] ([[quod vide|q.v.]]), Att. [[φρατρία]]; also [[φατρία]] and [[φάτρα]] (v. infr.):—prop. [[brotherhood]], but among the Greeks always in polit. sense, cf. Dicaearch.Hist.9:<br><span class="bld">I</span> in Hom., [[tribe]], [[clan]], <b class="b3">κρῖν' ἄνδρας . . κατὰ φρήτρας, ὡς φρήτρη φρήτρηφιν ἀρήγῃ</b> choose men by [[clan]]s, that [[clan]] may stand by [[clan]], Il.2.362; of the Persian royal [[clan]] (the Achaemenids), Hdt.1.125.<br><span class="bld">II</span> later, [[political]] [[subdivision]] of the [[φυλή]], Pl.''Lg.''746d, 785a, Isoc.8.88, Aeschin.2.147; φρατρίαι καὶ φυλαί Arist.''Pol.''1264a8, cf. 1300a25, 1309a12; freq. in Inscrr., φυλῆς καὶ δήμου καὶ φρατρίας ὧν ἂν βούληται ἀπογραψάμενον ''IG''12.110.16; <b class="b3">προσγραψαμένοις πρὸς φυλὴν καὶ φρατρίαν ἢν ἂν βούλωνται</b> ib.12(5).819.21 (Tenos, ii B. C.); [[subdivision]] of a [[tribe]], PHib. 1.28.10 (iii B. C.); of groups celebrating festivals, e.g. the Carnea at Sparta, Demetr.Sceps. ap. Ath.4.141f; or the Jewish Passover, J.''AJ''3.10.5, ''BJ''6.9.3; perhaps = [[σύνοδος]] 1.2, Pap. in ''Harvard Theological Review'' 29.40 (i B. C.).<br><span class="bld">2</span> used to translate Lat. [[curia]], Plu. ''Publ.''7; in form φράτρα, D.H.2.7, 6.89, al.<br><span class="bld">3</span> later, of any [[league]] or [[association]], especially in bad sense, [[conspiracy]] (in form [[φατρία]]), Lib.''Or.''18.141; <b class="b3">τῶν πονηρῶν τε καὶ ἀκολάστων φατρίαι</b> ib.17.2. (The form [[φάτρα]] is found in Arcadia, ''IG''5(2).510 (ii B. C.), and at Tenos, ib.12(5).798.23 (iii B. C.); [[φατρία]] is found at Chios, ''Michel'' 997.28 (iv B. C.); at Tenos, ''IG''12(5).816.16 (iii B. C.); and freq. in codd., e.g. Aeschin. [[l.c.]], Arist.''Pol.'' ll.cc., cf. Hdn.Gr.1.298, 2.598, Orusap.''EM''789.20; cf. [[φρήτρη]], [[φρητρία]].—