Eupatrid Sentence Examples

At Athens, at any rate after Aristides, the eupatrid was neither better nor worse off than another man.

It is not probable that the Eupatrid families were all autochthonous, even in the loose sense of that term.

A pursuit of these two suggestions has established the probability that this "Eupatrid" clan traced its origin to Orestes, and derived its name from the hero, who was above all a benefactor of his father.

During this period Athens seems to have made little use of her militia, commanded by the polemarch, or of her navy, which was raised in special local divisions known as Naucraries (see Naucrary); hence no military esprit de corps could arise to check the Eupatrid tion.