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 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 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 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 ev'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.
 * md gentile associations, the larger as well as the smaller, were
 * Herodot. i, 143. 'E/carafy yevr/^oyf/aavTi TS JU-VT^V KIZI u.va6i l a^ *