ἔτης: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ὁ, Elean ϝέτας (v. infr.), in Hom. always in pl. ἔται, οἱ:— <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[clansmen]], i.e. [[kinsmen and dependents of a great house]], ἀμύνων σοῖσιν ἔτῃσι <span class="bibl">Il.6.262</span>; δαινύντα γάμον πολλοῖσι ἔτῃσιν <span class="bibl">Od.4.3</span>; παῖδάς τε κασιγνήτους τε ἔτας τε <span class="bibl">Il.6.239</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Od.15.273</span>; ἔται καὶ ἀνεψιοί <span class="bibl">Il.9.464</span>; ἔτας καὶ ἑταίρους <span class="bibl">7.295</span>; γείτονες ἠδὲ ἔται <span class="bibl">Od.4.16</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> later, [[citizen]], ἔταις ἀμαχανίαν ἀλέξων τεοῖσιν <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">Pae.</span>6.10</span>, cf. Epic. in <span class="title">Arch.Pap.</span>7.4; <b class="b3">τὼς ἔτας καττὰ πάτρια δικάζεσθαι</b> Foed.Lac. in <span class="bibl">Th.5.79</span>: in sg., [[a private citizen]], opp. those who hold office, πρός σε . . ὡς ἔτην λέγω <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Supp.</span>247</span>; οὔτε δῆμος οὔτ' ἔτης ἀνήρ <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Fr.</span>377</span>; ἀρχῷ, φωτὶ δ' οὐκ ἔτῃ πρέπων <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Fr.</span>1014</span>; αἴτε ϝέτας αἴτε τελεστά <span class="title">SIG</span>9.8 (Olympia, vi B.C.), cf. 141.12 (Corc. nigra, iv B.C.), <span class="title">Mus.Belg.</span>16.70 (Athens, ii A. D.), <span class="title">IG</span>5(2).20 (Tegea). (On the breathing, see Hdn.Gr.2.55.)</span>

|mdlsjtxt=[[mostly]] in pl.]<br /><b class="num">I.</b> the [[ἔται]] were clansmen, i. e. the kinsmen of a [[great]] [[house]], cousins, παῖδές τε κασίγνητοί τε [[ἔται]] τε Hom.; [[ἔται]] καὶ ἀνεψιοί Il.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> [[later]], = [[δημότης]], a [[townsman]], [[neighbour]], Thuc.:—in sg. a [[private]] [[citizen]], Aesch.<br /><b class="num">III.</b> for [[ὦ τάν]] or ὦ 'τάν, v. sub τάν.