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