56 HISTORY OF GREECE. will be found to acquire constantly increasing influence through^ out the greater part of this history. In the former, personal re lation is the essential and predominant characteristic, 1 local re- lation being subordinate : in the latter, property and residence become the chief considerations, and the personal element counts only as measured by these accompaniments. All these phratric
- md gentile associations, the larger as well as the smaller, were
founded upon the same principles and tendencies of the Grecian mind, 2 a coalescence of the idea of worship with that of ances- try, or of communion in certain special religious rites with com- munion of blood, real or supposed. The god, or hero, to whom the assembled members offered their sacrifices, was conceived as the primitive ancestor, to whom they owed their origin ; often through a long list of intermediate names, as in the case of the Milesian Hekataeus, so often before adverted to. 3 Each family yevtKal, opposed to <j>v7ial TOTrmai. Dionys. Hal. Ant. Rom. IT, 14. Plato, Euthydem. p. 302 ; Aristot. ap. Schol. in Platon. Axjoch. p. 4C5, ed. Bck. 'Apforore/lj/f ^crt TOV oAov 7rAj;i9wf dir/prififrov 'Atf^vyow e<f rt roi)f )fcjoyoi)f not rove drifuovpyotie, 0vAuf avrtiv ehai reaaapaf, TUV 6e <t>v'iJv inaoTtis fioipuf tlvai rpei, ac rptrrvac TS naXovoi K.a.1 Qparpiaf IXUG- rrjr <5e TOVTUV TpiunovTa eivai yivi], TO Se yevof in rpiuKovra uvdptiv avvia- ruvai TOVTOVC 6// roi>e elf T& yivt] reray/ievotf yEWTjTaf KaAovai. Pollux, viii, 3. Oi fj.Tx VTf ' T v "yevovf, jtvvr)ra.i KOI 6/^oya/la/cref yivei (lev oil xpuOTjHovTef, K Je r^f vvvodov OVTU Trpoaa/opevo/zevoi : compare also iii, 52 ; Moaris. Atticist. p. 108. Harpokrat. v, 'ATTO/./IWV Harpiltoc, Oeoinnv, Tsvvf/rai, 'Opyewvff, etc Etymol. Magn. v, Tevvq-ai ; Suidas, v, 'Opyetivef ; Pollux, viii, 85 ; Demos- then. cont. Enbalid. p. 1319. eira QpuTopsf, elra 'A6/JMVO Trarpi^ov nai A.IOC Ifimov -yevv^Tai; and cont. Nearam, p. 1365. Isscus uses bpyeuvef s.3 synonymous with yevviiTai (see Oral, ii, pp. 19, 20-28, ed. Jtek.). Schomann (Anti<|. J. P. Grsec. xxvi) considers the two as csscntid'j' distinct. 0>pr]- rpj) and oii^.ov both occur in the Iliad, ii, 362. See the TVsscrtation of Bnttmann Uber den CegrifT von ^parpia (Mythologus, c. ?*, p 305) ; and that of Meier, De Gentilitate Attica, where the points of kpow,V%c attain- able respecting the gcntcs are well put together and discussed. In the TherJean Inscription (No. 2448 ap. Boeckh. Corp- IPST. *ce his comment, page 310) containing the .estament of EpiktOto, whereby n V^ucst is made to oi avyytvtlq 6 uv6pelof rCiv avyyevuv, his latter wotrj djes not mean kindred or blood relations, but a variety of <be gentile urjA* ' thiasus," or " sodalitium." Boeckh.
- Herodot. i, 143. 'E/carafy yevr/^oyf/aavTi TS JU-VT^V KIZI u.va6i l a^ *
