Volume 1
The history and antiquities of the Doric race, / by C.O. Müller, ... ; Translated from the German by Henry Tufnell, Esq. and George Cornewall Lewis, Esq.
- Karl Otfried Müller
- Date:
- MDCCCXXX. [1830]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The history and antiquities of the Doric race, / by C.O. Müller, ... ; Translated from the German by Henry Tufnell, Esq. and George Cornewall Lewis, Esq. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![“ Patra was the name of the second stage of re- “ lationship among different persons, the first having “ merely been the affinity between man and wife. “ Its title was derived from the most ancient and ‘‘ powerful of the race, as, for instance, the ^acidae “ or Pelopidae. “ The names Pliatria and Phratria arose as fol- “ lows. When a man married his daughter to the “ member of a different Patra, the bride no longer “ continued to share in the sacred rites of the Patra “ to which she by birth belonged, but was reckoned “ in the Patra of her husband. So that a meeting “ of brothers and sisters in different Patras having “ first arisen from natural affection, another society “ was formed, with a community of sacred rites, “ called Phratria, Thus a Patra arose chiefly from “ the affinity of parents and children, and children “ and parents, and a Phratria from that of brothers “ and sisters. “ The terms <^v>^ and (f>vXeTai first arose from “ the association of mankind into states and nations, “ each of the combining parts being called a </>yAov.” The above very curious passage of Dicaearchus, self is perhaps not required. And afterwards we ought pro- bably to read wvoiiacrQria-av ti]s (Is ras TrdXetf, &c. as the same writer appears to suggest. See Buttmann, Berlin Transactions i8i8—19, on ^parpt'a, reprinted in Mythologns, vol. II. p. 304—334; Wachsmuth, Hellenische Alterthumskunde, vol. I. part I. p. 312 ; Boeckh and Dissen on Pindar, as quoted below, vol. II. p. 83. note Nie- buhr, History of Rome, vol. I. p. 266 sqq. ed. 2. Engl, transl.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28753999_0001_0019.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
