πατρῷος
ξένος ὢν ἀκολούθει τοῖς ἐπιχωρίοις νόμοις → as a foreigner, follow the laws of that country | when in Rome, do as the Romans do
English (LSJ)
α, ον, also ος, ον A.Ag.210(lyr.), E.Supp.1147 (lyr.), etc. ; Ep. and Ion. πατρώϊος, η, ον, the only form used in Hom., Hes., and Hdt.; the former first in Thgn.888, Pi.P.4.290, though both use the longer form, Thgn. 521, Pi.P.4.220 ; Thess. πατρούεος (q.v.) : (πατήρ) :—
A of or from one's father, coming or inherited from him, σκῆπτρον, ἔγχος, Il.2.46, 19.387 ; τέμενος, δῶμα, οἶκος, 20.391, 21.44, Hes.Op.376 ; ξεῖνος πατρώϊός ἐσσι παλαιός my old hereditary friend, Il.6.215 ; π. ἑταῖροι Od. 2.254, 17.69 ; γαῖα πατρωΐη one's fatherland, 13.188, 251 ; πατρῴα γῆ Thgn.888, Pi.P.4.290, S.El.67, etc.; π. οὖδας A.Ag.503 ; ἄστυ S.OT1450 ; δῶμα, ἑστία, κοῖται, E. Or.1595, Hec.22, S.El. 194 (lyr.); πατρώϊα one's father's goods, patrimony, Od. 17.80, 20.336, 22.61 ; τὰ π. Hdt.9.26, Ar.Th.819, Lys. 27.11, v.l. in Arist.Pol. 1303b34 ; τὰ π. χρήματα Ar.Av.1658 ; θρόνος A.Pr.230, cf. S.El.268, etc.; δοῦλοι π. Hdt.2.1 ; γέρεα Id.7.104 ; θυσίαι D.Ep.3.30 codd. ; ἀρχή X.An.1.7.6 ; π. δόξα hereditary glory, Id.HG7.5.16 (but πατρῴα καὶ παππῴα δόξα of our fathers and grandfathers, D.10.73) ; π. οἰκία, κλῆρος, And.1.62, Pl.Chrm. 157e, Lg. 923d, etc.; οὐσία Anaxandr.45 ; ἡ εἰρήνη ἡ π. IG42(1).68.13 (Epid., iv B. C.) ; ἔχων π. ἡμῶν ὑποθήκην Sammelb. 7339.6 (i A. D.) ; π. θεοί tutelary gods of a family or people, as Apollo at Athens, S.Ph.933, cf. Pl.Euthd. 302d, Arist.Ath.55.3, Sammelb.6262.5 (iii A. D.) ; Zeus among the Dorians, A.Fr. 162.3 ; πρὸς θεῶν π. καὶ μητρῴων X.HG 2.4.21, cf. Th.7.69 : sg., Berl.Sitzb.1927.169 (Cyrene) ; Zeus was the θεὸς π. of Heracles, S.Tr.288, 753 ; of Orestes, E.El.671 ; Ζεὺς π. was also the god who protects parents' rights, Ar.Nu. 1468, Pl. Lg.881d, etc. II = πάτριος, of or belonging to one's father, μῆλα Od.12.136 ; π. πρὸς στάθμαν Pi.P.6.45 ; π. ἄεθλοι imposed by him, ib.4.220; but π. ἆθλος of him, S.Ant.856 (lyr.) ; π. γνώμη ib.640 ; π. φόνοι, πήματα, Id.OC990, 1196 ; π. χέρες A.Ag.210 (lyr.), etc.; τὰ πατρώϊα the cause of one's father, opp. τὰ μητρώϊα, Hdt.3.53.—Gramm. distd. πατρῷος, as expressing patrimonial possession, from πάτριος as expressing hereditary manners, customs, institutions ; v. Ammon. Diff. s. v., AB297, Suid., etc.—The distn. holds in Att. Prose ; but Hom. and Hdt. use πατρώϊος only, and in all these senses ; so also Trag. [πάτριος shd. be restored in all passages in Trag. where the 2nd syll. is made short in anap. and lyr., E.Hec.82, Tr.162, Ba. 1368, El. 1315, Alc.249 ; but γῆς ἀπὸ πατρωΐης ends a pentameter in IG12.978.]