Τριττύς
trittys, riding, third
Translated by David Whitehead12 Nov 2001Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Τριττύς· φυλῆς μέρος τρίτον. αὕτη γὰρ διῄρηται εἰς τρία μέρη, τριττῦς καὶ ἔθνη καὶ φατρίας, ὡς Ἀριστοτέλης φησί.
Betacode
*trittu/s: fulh=s me/ros tri/ton. au(/th ga\r dih/|rhtai ei)s tri/a me/rh, trittu=s kai\ e)/qnh kai\ fatri/as, w(s *)aristote/lhs fhsi/.
Notes (1)
- Abridged from Harpokration s.v., commenting on the occurrence of the headword in Aeschines 3.30.
For this headword in another sense, see tau 1030. - 1?Aristotle, Athenaion Politeia fr.3 (where the noun following trittyes is
ge/nh , in the sense of "clans"). Cf. phi 136, and see in full S.D. Lambert, The Phratries of Attica (Ann Arbor 1993, repr. with corrections 1998) appendix 2. ↩
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