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Liddell-Scott-Jones Lexicon of Classical Greek
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Greek1: adelphotês 2: phulon 3: phratriasmos 4: selachôdês 5: aprosphulos
Latin1: societas 2: Vertacomacori 3: foederaticus 4: curionius 5: curionatus
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phratra, hê, dat. phratrêi OGI483.87 (Pergam., ii B. C.), Ion. phrêtrê, Dor. patra (q. v.), Delph. patria (q. v.), Att. phratria; also phatria and phatra (v. infr.):--

  • prop. brotherhood, but among the Greeks always in polit. sense, cf. Dicaearch.Hist.9:

    I. in Hom., tribe, clan, krin' andras . . kata phrêtras, hôs phrêtrê phrêtrêphin arêgêi choose men by clans, that clan may stand by clan,     Hom. Il. 2.362; of the Persian royal clan (the Achaemenids), Hdt. 1.125.

    II. later, political subdivision of the phulê,     Plat. Laws 746d, au=Plat. Laws 785a, Isoc. 8.88, Aeschin. 2.147; phratriai kai phulai Aristot. Pol. 1264a8, cf. au=Aristot. Pol. 1300a25, au=Aristot. Pol. 1309a12; freq. in Inscrr., phulês kai dêmou kai phratrias hôn an boulêtai apograpsamenon IG12.110.16; prosgrapsamenois pros phulên kai phratrian ên an boulôntai ib.12(5).819.21 (Tenos, ii B. C.); sub-division 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.AJ3.10.5, ti=J. BJ6.9.3; perh. = sunodos I.2, Pap. in Harvard Theological Review au=J. BJ 29.40 (i B. C.).