Ἔθνος
nation, people, tribe
Translated by David Whitehead3 Feb 2007Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] the majority/mass.1
"[...] they were considered seducers, rent-boys, burglars, cut-purses and tribes of that sort".2
[The word] ethnos [can mean] not only a large and populous people but also, in a special sense, a particular part of the polis. Thus Demosthenes in the [speech] Against Aristocrates and in the ninth Philippic.3
Josephus in his History of the Maccabees sayse)qnopa/gktou ["nation-packed"].4
"[...] they were considered seducers, rent-boys, burglars, cut-purses and tribes of that sort".2
[The word] ethnos [can mean] not only a large and populous people but also, in a special sense, a particular part of the polis. Thus Demosthenes in the [speech] Against Aristocrates and in the ninth Philippic.3
Josephus in his History of the Maccabees says