Eumolpidae
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the Eumolpidae · the race of the Eumolpidae
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Constitution of the Athenians
A priestly family/group whose priesthood was allotted from among the 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 Androtion
A sacred Athenian genos or authority mentioned in procedures for impiety.
In the same way for impiety you can arrest, or indict, or sue before the Eumolpidae, or give information to the King-Archon.
Theomnestus and Apollodorus Against Neaera
The eminent Athenian priestly clan traditionally supplying the hierophants of the Eleusinian Mysteries, to which Archias belonged.
It is, then, a monstrous thing that a man who was of the race of the Eumolpidae, born of honorable ancestors and a citizen of Athens, should be punished for having transgressed one of your established customs;
Panegyricus
An Athenian priestly clan responsible for officiating the Eleusinian Mysteries.
and, at the celebration of the Mysteries, the Eumolpidae and the Kerykes, because of our hatred of the Persians, give solemn warning to the other barbarians also, even as to men guilty of murder, that they are for ever banned from the sacred rites.
History of the Peloponnesian War
Athenian priestly clan overseeing the Eleusinian Mysteries, opposed to Alcibiades's recall.
and the Eumolpidae and Ceryces adjured them with regard to the mysteries, for which he had been banished, and appealed to the gods against their restoring him;