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πατρίς

patris

of oneʼs fathers

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Where it lives

Against The Subversion of the Ancestral Constitution 3 · 54.25/10k
Against Philon 6 · 33/10k
On A Wound By Premeditation 3 · 31.71/10k
Against Simon 6 · 27.55/10k
The Funeral Speech 51-61 5 · 19.92/10k
Funeral Oration 8 · 19.69/10k
Phoenissae 19 · 19.68/10k
Agesilaus 14 · 19.03/10k
On the Crown 33 · 16.98/10k
Crito 7 · 16.79/10k
Against Alcibiades 1 4 · 16.58/10k
Defense in the Matter of the Olive Stump 3 · 14.81/10k

Densest 12 of 128 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

πατρίς · patris — LSJ

of oneʼs fathers, oneʼs fatherland, country, of oneʼs sires

of oneʼs fathers, πατρὶς αἶα, ἄρουρα, oneʼs fatherland, country, Od. 10.236, 20.193; π. γαῖα 24.322, Hes. Sc. 1, 12, A. Th. 585; γῆ π. S. OT 641, Ar. Th. 859 (paratrag.) ; π. πόλις the city of oneʼs sires, Pi. O. 10(11).36.

II the nether world, ubi bene, ibi patria, native town, village

Subst., = πάτρα I, Il. 5.213, Od. 4.586, 9.34, Hdt. 3.140, Th. 6.69, etc.; κοινὴ π., i.e. the nether world, Plu. Cons.Apoll. 2.113c : prov., π. γάρ ἐστι πᾶσʼ ἵνʼ ἂν πράττῃ τις εὖ, ubi bene, ibi patria, Ar. Pl. 1151; simply, native town or village, UPZ 9.5 (ii B. C.), Ev.Marc. 6.1, etc. : pl., ἐν ταῖς αὑτῶν π. D. 18.296, cf. 305, Pl. Plt. 308a, Hyp. Epit. 10.

In the wild

πατρίδʼ · patridʼ Aeschylus, Persians 399–404
πατρίς · patris Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 585–586
πατρίδος · patridos Aristophanes, Acharnians 1 (DIORISIS sentence 214)
πατρίδι · patridi Aristophanes, Acharnians (DIORISIS sentence 135)
πατρίδʼ · patridʼ Aristophanes, Birds 10 (DIORISIS sentence 9)
πατρίδος · patridos Aristophanes, Birds (DIORISIS sentence 26)

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