Those belonging to the same clan [
genos]. For the citizens of
Athens used to be divided into parts, and the largest parts were called tribes [
phylai], and each tribe was in turn divided into three, of which each part was named a riding [
trittys] and a phratry. Each of the phratries was in turn divided into thirty clans, from which the priesthoods appropriate to each were filled by lot. And "clansmen" [were] those from the same and first clan of the thirty clans; [they were those] whom
Philochorus says were previously called
homogalaktes ["drinkers of the same milk"].[1]
Isaeus, however, names the clansmen simply as those related to one another by blood.[2]
Gennêtai: hoi tou autou genous koinônountes. kai gar diêirênto kata merê hoi tôn Athênaiôn politai, kai ta men megista merê phulai ônomazonto, hekastê de phulê palin eis tria diêirêto, hôn hekaston meros trittus kai phratria ônomazeto. palin de tôn phratriôn hekastê eis genê diêirêto l#, ex hôn hai hierôsunai hekastois prosêkousai eklêrounto. kai gennêtai, hoi ek tou autou kai prôtou genous tôn l# genôn, hous kai proteron phêsi Philochoros homogalaktas kaleisthai. Isaios mentoi tous gennêtas haplôs tous ex haimatos sungeneis onomazei.
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