Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900), Book 13 (Ν）, line 354

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[354] πάτρη is elsewhere always used in a purely local sense, home or birthplace. But the gods of H. are remarkably free from any local connexion; we could not say where their birthplace was; as for their dwelling, Poseidon's was the sea rather than Olympos the home of Zeus. The word therefore seems here to have the more abstract sense parentage, a specialization of the vaguer “γένος”.

The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices. Walter Leaf. London. Macmillan. 1900.

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