Πατριαί

fatherlands

Translated by William Hutton1 Sep 2011Vetting: high3 revisions

5 words

[Meaning] countries, tribes, administrative regions.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Πατριαί· χῶραι, φυλαί, τοπαρχίαι.

Betacode

*patriai/: xw=rai, fulai/, toparxi/ai.

= Synagoge, Photius pi490 Theodoridis. Possibly from commentary on the Septuagint where the nominative plural headword occurs seven times (e.g. Exodus 6:15). The alternatives include Herodotus 1.200 (on Babylonia), noted by Dindorf and Theodoridis, and the New Testament (Acts 3:25).

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