Clansmen
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clansmen · clan · gennetai · his clansmen
in the texts
Constitution of the Athenians
Members of the thirty-man clans into which the phratries were subdivided, from whose ranks certain priesthoods were allotted.
And each of these was composed of thirty clans, and each clan had thirty men, those arranged into the clans, who were called clansmen, from whom the priesthoods belonging to each were allotted—for instance the Eumolpidae and the Heralds and the Eteobutadae—as Aristotle records in the Constitution of the Athenians, saying thus:
These men, then, who were arranged into the clans, they call clansmen.
Against Boeotus I
The kin group into whose list Mantias entered Mantitheus, Boeotus, and Pamphilus.
If one should ask you what proof you had of this or what evidence, you would say, He introduced me to the clansmen.
When she had done this it was necessary to enter them among the clansmen, and there was no excuse left.
You have heard from the witnesses the manner in which our father enrolled us;
Against Boeotus II
Kin or civic group to whom the recognized sons are introduced.
but he was compelled to introduce them to the clansmen.
Characters
The shabby profiteer's clan group, whom he feasts while secretly profiting from the shared fund.
When he feasts his clansmen, he asks for relish for his own children out of the common fund;