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.
These men, then, who were arranged into the clans, they call clansmen.
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:
Against Boeotus I
The kin group into whose list Mantias entered Mantitheus, Boeotus, and Pamphilus.
Boeotus is the name of his mother’s brother;
You have heard from the witnesses the manner in which our father enrolled us;
When she had done this it was necessary to enter them among the clansmen, and there was no excuse left.
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;