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Headword:
Phrêtra
Adler number: phi,711
Translated headword: brotherhood, phratry
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] kinship.[1]
"[... they chose generals,] who tried to make them orderly and divide them into brotherhoods and companies and phalanxes, just as [amongst] humans."[2]
Greek Original:Phrêtra: hê sungeneia. hoi sphas ekosmoun, kai dieilen es phrêtras lochous te kai phalangas, hôsper anthrôpous.
Notes:
[1] cf.
phi 281. The headword here conflates the Attic form
fra/tra and Ionic
frh/trh. Similarly in other lexica.
[2] An approximation of
Babrius,
Fables 31.9-10 (on the steps taken by the mice when defeated by the weasels); cf.
tau 1076. Read plural
diei=lon for the Suda's
diei=len, and
w(s par' a)nqrw/pois.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 11 November 2010@03:36:54.
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