A.fatherland, native land, Il. 12.243, 24.500, Pi.O. 12.16, A.Pr.665, S.Ph.222, IG42(1).244.8 (Epid., epigr., iii B.C.), etc., used in parody of Trag. by Ar.Ach. 147, Ra. 1427, Th.136, Alex.193, Diph.73.9 :—πατρίς (q.v.) was the common prose form, but Hdt. uses πάτρη in 6.126, 128, πατρίς in 3.140, 8.61.
II. fatherhood, descent from a common father, ἀμφοτέροισιν όμὸν γένος ἠδ᾽ ἴα π. Il.13.354 (nowh. else in this sense in Hom.) ; βασιλεὺς Ἰώνων ἀνὰ πάτρην by hereditary descent, IGRom.4.1730 (Samos, ii A.D.) : hence,