Ἐρέτρια
κατ' ἀρχῆς γὰρ φιλαίτιος λεώς → people are always ready to blame the rulers, people are against authority, people were fond of anything by which they could call authority in question
English (LSJ)
Ep. (metri gr.) Εἰρέτρια, ἡ, Il.2.537:—
A Eretria, IG12.304.17, Th.8.60, Hdt.6.43, etc.:—hence Ἐρετριεύς, έως, ὁ, an Eretrian, Hdt.5.99, al., etc. : pl. Ἐρετριῆς IG22.43.85 (iv B. C.); Ἐρετριεῖς ib.12(9).207.5 (iii B. C.), etc. ; acc. Ἐρετριᾶς ib.188 ; gen. Ἐρετριῶν ib.12.49.12, al., Ἐρετριέων ib.12(9).187.13, etc. ; written Ἐρετριείων ib.201.7 (acc. sg. contr. Ἐρετρῆ prob. in Crates Theb.2) : —Adj. Ἐρετρικός, ή, όν, Eretrian, Hdt.6.101, etc. ; οἱ Ἐ. the disciples of the Eretrian Menedemus, Str.9.1.8 (v.l. Ἐρετριακοί, as in D.L.1.18, etc.) : Ἐρετριάς (sc. γῆ), άδος, ἡ, a kind of clay, Hp.Morb. 3.16, Dsc.5.152.
French (Bailly abrégé)
ας (ἡ) :
Érétrie :
1 ville de Thessalie;
2 cité d’Eubée, où a travaillé l’auteur de ce dictionnaire.
Étymologie: DELG ἐρέσσω.
Russian (Dvoretsky)
Ἐρέτρια: эп.-поэт. Εἰρέτρια ἡ Эретрия
1) город на о-ве Эвбея, разрушен персами в 490 г. до н. э. Hom., Her., Thuc.;
2) город в Фессалии, близ Фарсала Polyb.
