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πατρόθεν

Adverb; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πατρόθεν

Etym.: path/r

Sense

  1. from or after a father, by his father's name, by the father's, as the son of one's father
  2. coming from, sent by one's father, father's

Examples

  • ῥητοὶ γὰρ δὴ ὦν ἑκάστησ πόλιοσ αὐτόθι ξεινοδόκοι εἰσίν, καὶ τόδε πατρόθεν οἴκοι δέκονται. (Lucian, De Syria dea, (no name) 56:2)
  • καὶ δημότασ ἐποίησεν ἀλλήλων τοὺσ οἰκοῦντασ ἐν ἑκάστῳ τῶν δήμων, ἵνα μὴ πατρόθεν προσαγορεύοντεσ ἐξελέγχωσιν τοὺσ νεοπολίτασ, ἀλλὰ τῶν δήμων ἀναγορεύωσιν. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 21 4:2)
  • ἔχει δ’ ἕκαστοσ δικαστὴσ τὸ πινάκιον πύξινον, ἐπιγεγραμμένον τὸ ὄνομα τὸ ἑαυτοῦ πατρόθεν καὶ τοῦ δήμου, καὶ γράμμα ἓν τῶν στοιχείων μέχρι τοῦ κ· (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 63 4:1)
  • πέμπουσι γὰρ εἰσ Ιἑροσόλυμα συγγράψαντεσ πατρόθεν τοὔνομα τῆσ τε γαμετῆσ καὶ τῶν ἐπάνω προγόνων καὶ τίνεσ οἱ μαρτυροῦντεσ. (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 40:2)
  • γενέσθαι πατράσιν ὑποθείμην ἂν ἔγωγε μὴ ταῖσ τυχούσαισ γυναιξὶ συνοικεῖν, λέγω δ’ οἱο͂ν ἑταίραισ ἢ παλλακαῖσ τοῖσ γὰρ μητρόθεν ἢ πατρόθεν οὐκ εὖ γεγονόσιν ἀνεξάλειπτα παρακολουθεῖ τὰ τῆσ δυσγενείασ ὀνείδη παρὰ πάντα τὸν βίον καὶ πρόχειρα τοῖσ ἐλέγχειν καὶ λοιδορεῖσθαι βουλομένοισ. (Plutarch, De liberis educandis, section 2 2:1)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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