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ἑταιρ-εία , ἡ, also ἑταιρία , E. Or.1072,1079, Th.3.82, Pl.R.365d, D.10.259, Arist.Pol.1272b34, al.; Ion. ἑταιρ-ηΐη : (ἑταῖρος):—
A.association, brotherhood, “τῶν ἡλικιωτέων” Hdt. 5.71 ; “ἑ. ποιεῖσθαι” Isoc.3.54 (pl.) ; “μαρτύρων συνεστῶσ᾽ ἑ.” D.21.139 ; “αἱ βόες νέμονται καθ᾽ ἑταιρείας” Arist.HA611a7 ; of a social group in Crete, Leg.Gort.10.38.
2. at Athens and elsewhere, political club or union for party purposes, Eup.8.6 D., Com.Adesp.22.31 D., Th.3.82, Lys.12.55, Isoc.4.79 (pl.); “-ίας συνάξομεν” Pl.R.365d ; “σπουδαὶ ἑταιριῶν ἐπ᾽ ἀρχάς” Id.Tht.173d ; at Carthage, τὰ συσσίτια τῶν ἑ., compared to the φιδίτια at Sparta, Arist.Pol.1272b34, cf. 1305b32.
3. = Lat. collegium, ἑταιρία Ἰουλιανή, = collegium Lupercorum Juliorum, D.C.44.6.
II. generally, friendly connexion, friendship, comradeship, Simon.118, S.Aj.683, E.Or.1072, AP7.51 (Adaeus) ; opp. ἔχθρα, D.29.23.
III. = ἑταίρησις, And.1.100, v.l. in D.S.2.18 : Anaxil.21.3 combines signfs. 11 and 111.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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