A.of or belonging to one's father, “ἄρουρα” Pi.O.2.14 ; ὄσσα ib.6.62 ; “γῆ” S.Ant. 806 (lyr.), E.Med. 651 (lyr.) ; “χθών” Id.Hel.222 ; τεύχεα, δώματα, S.Ph. 398 (lyr.), OT1394.
II. = πατρικός, derived from one's fathers, hereditary, “οἱ π. θεοί” Hdt.1.172, Sammelb.6664.5 (Egypt, ii B.C.), IG7.2713.51 (i A.D.) ; “πάτριος θεά” Milet. 7.64 (ii/iii A.D.) ; “αἱ π. τελεταί” Ar.Ra.368 ; “ἱερά” Th. 2.16 ; “νόμοι” Id.4.118, Decr. ap. Arist.Ath. 29.3, X.HG2.3.2 ; “θυσίαι” Isoc.10.63, IG22.780, etc.; “π. πολιτεία” Thrasym. 1,Arist.Ath. 34.3, D.S.14.3, etc.; “π. ἀρχαί” X.Cyr. 1.1.4, cf. Arist.Pol. 1285a24,33 ; αἱ τιμαὶ αἱ π. Isoc.9.32 ; “π. καὶ ἀρχαῖα νόμιμα” Pl.Lg. 793b ; “τὸν π. ὅρκον” PPetr. 3p.163 (iii B.C.) ; -ωτέρα ἡγεμονία more ancient, Isoc.4.37 ; πάτριόν ἐστιν (sc.αὐτοῖς) it is an hereditary custom [among them], Ar.Ec.778, cf. Th. 1.123, X.HG7.1.3, SIG695.16 (Magn. Mae., ii B.C.), etc.; “οὐ γὰρ π. τᾷ Σπάρτᾳ” Tyrt. 15.6 ; “οὐκ ἦν ταῦτα τοῖς τότε Ἀθηναίοις πάτρια” D.18.203, cf. Pl.Hp.Ma. 284b ; τάδε π. Ὀλβιοπολίταις καὶ Μιλησίοις, in a treaty, SIG286.1 (iv B.C.) ; τὰ πάτρια ancestral customs, κατὰ τὰ π. IG12.76.4, Ar.Ach. 1000, Th.2.2, etc. ; παρὰ τὰ π. Pl.Plt. 296c ; ποιεῖν πρὸς τὴν πόλιν τὰ π. to serve the state as our fathers before us, Isoc.4.31 : less freq. in sg., τὸ π. παρείς neglecting the inherited constitution, Th.4.86. Adv., πατρίως Ἰουδαίοις according to the custom of their fathers, J.BJ 1.24.2 ; π. καλούμενον in their native language, ib.5.2.1, cf. Lyd.Mens. 4.64 ; v. πατρῷος sub fin.
