A.“-ῶτ α ” Nico 1 : (πάτριος) :—fellow-countryman : prop. of barbarians who had only a common πατρίς, π ο λ ῖτ α ι being used of Greeks who had a common πόλις, Poll. 3.54, Hsch., Phot.: hence “μήτε πατριώτας ἀλλήλων ε ἶν α ι τ ο ὺς μέλλοντας ῥᾷο ν δουλεύσειν” Pl.Lg.777c ; τ ο ῖσ ι Λυκούργου π ., Lycurgus being satirized as an Egyptian, Pherecr. 11, cf. Alex. 326 ; also ἵπποι π ., = ἐγχώριοι, X.Cyr.2.2.26 : metaph., of Mt. Cithaeron, “π . Ο ἰδίπου” S.OT 1091 (lyr.); π . θεός, of Dionysus, Plu.2.671c ; π . ἐστί μ ο ι .—Ans. “ἐλάνθανες ἄρ α βάρβαρος ὤν ” Luc.Sol.5 ; cf. πατριῶτις.
II. later, = πολίτης, Iamb. VP5.21.