Bible Lexicons

πατρῷος, α, ον,

also ος, ον A. Ag. 210 (lyr.), E. Supp. 1147 (lyr.), etc.; and Ion. πατρώϊος, η, ον, the only form used in Hom., Hes., and Hdt.; the former first in Thgn. 888, Pi. P. 4.290, though both use the longer form, Thgn. 521, Pi. P. 4.220; Thess. πατρούεος (q.v.): (πατήρ): —

of or from one's father, coming or inherited from him, σκῆπτρον, ἔγχος, Il. 2.46, 19.387; τέμενος, δῶμα, οἶκος, 20.391, 21.44, Hes. Op. 376; ξεῖνος πατρώϊός ἐσσι παλαιός my old hereditary friend, Il. 6.215; π. ἑταῖροι Od. 2.254, 17.69; γαῖα πατρωΐη one's fatherland, 13.188, 251; πατρῴα γῆ Thgn. 888, Pi. P. 4.290, S. El. 67, etc.; π. οὖδας A. Ag. 503; ἄστυ S. OT 1450; δῶμα, ἑστία, κοῖται, E. Or. 1595, Hec. 22, S. El. 194 (lyr.); πατρώϊα one's father's goods, patrimony, Od. 17.80, 20.336, 22.61; τὰ π. Hdt. 9.26, Ar. Th. 819, Lys. 27.11, v.l. in Arist. Pol. 1303b34; τὰ π. χρήματα Ar. Av. 1658; θρόνος A. Pr. 230, cf. S. El. 268, etc.; δοῦλοι π. Hdt. 2.1; γέρεα Id. 7.104; θυσίαι D. 3.30 codd.; ἀρχή X. An. 1.7.6; π. δόξα hereditary glory, Id. HG 7.5.16 (but πατρῴα καὶ παππῴα δόξα of our fathers and grandfathers, D. 10.73); π. οἰκία, κλῆρος, And. 1.62, Pl. Chrm. 157e, Lg. 923d, etc.; οὐσία Anaxandr. 45; ἡ εἰρήνη ἡ π. IG 42(1).68.13 (Epid., iv B. C.); ἔχων π. ἡμῶν ὑποθήκην Sammelb. 7339.6 (i A. D.); π. θεοί tutelary gods of a family or people, as Apollo at Athens, S. Ph. 933, cf. Pl. Euthd. 302d, Arist. Ath. 55.3, Sammelb. 6262.5 (iii A. D.); Zeus among the Dorians, A. Fr. 162.3; πρὸς θεῶν π. καὶ μητρῴων X. HG 2.4.21, cf. Th. 7.69: sg., Berl.Sitzb. 1927.169 (Cyrene); Zeus was the θεὸς π. of Heracles, S. Tr. 288, 753; of Orestes, E. El. 671; Ζεὺς π. was also the god who protects parents' rights, Ar. Nu. 1468, Pl. Lg. 881d, etc.

II = cross πάτριος, of or belonging to one's father, μῆλα Od. 12.136; π. πρὸς στάθμαν Pi. P. 6.45; π. ἄεθλοι imposed by him, ib. 4.220; but π. ἆθλος of him, S. Ant. 856 (lyr.); π. γνώμη ib. 640; π. φόνοι, πήματα, Id. OC 990, 1196; π. χέρες A. Ag. 210 (lyr.), etc.; τὰ πατρώϊα the cause of one's father, opp. τὰ μητρώϊα, Hdt. 3.53. — Gramm. distd. πατρῷος, as expressing patrimonial possession, from πάτριος as expressing hereditary manners, customs, institutions; v. Ammon. Diff. s. v., AB 297, Suid., etc. — The distn. holds in Att. Prose; but Hom. and Hdt. use πατρώϊος only, and in all these senses; so also Trag. [ πάτριος shd. be restored in all passages in Trag. where the 2nd syll. is made short in anap. and lyr., E. Hec. 82, Tr. 162, Ba. 1368, El. 1315, Alc. 249; but γῆς ἀπὸ πατρωΐης ends a pentameter in IG 12.978.]