[49\4: Those worshipped by a ~ge/nos~ regarded as its progenitors, ~gonei=s~: _AB._ 240, 31 ~(ta\ thu/mata di/dôsin) eis ta\ _gone/ôn_ (hiera\) ta\ ge/nê~.--Physical relationship between the ~gennê=tai~, originally a fact though afterwards only occasionally demonstrable, is indicated by the ancient name ~homoga/laktes~ applied to the members of the same clan (Philoch. _fr._ 91-4) and meaning strictly ~pai=des kai\ pai/dôn pai=des~ (Arist., _Pol._ 1252b, 18).--The word ~pa/tra~ with the same meaning as ~ge/nos~ (~Midulida=n pa/tra~, Pi., _P._ viii, 38), makes it still more clear that the members of such a group are regarded as the descendants of a single ancestor. See Dikaiarch. ap. St. Byz. ~pa/tra~.] [50\4: Whose names were chosen by the voice of the Delphic oracle out of a hundred submitted to the Pythia. Arist. ~Athp.~ 21, 6. Cf. Mommsen, _Philol._, N.F. i, 456 f.] [51\4: Instead of the common ~epô/numoi~ we also find the word ~_archê/getai_~ used of the Heroes of the phylai: Ar. ~Gê=ras~, _fr._ 126 H.-G. (_AB._ 449, 14); Pl., _Lys._ 205 D, cf. _CIA._ ii, 1191; 1575. It is even plainer that the Hero is regarded as the ancestor of his ~phulê/~ when he is called ~_archêgo/s_~: thus Oineus was the ~archêgo/s~ of the Oineïdai, Kekrops the ~archêgo/s~ of the Kekropidai, Hippothoön ~archêgo/s~ of the Hippothoöntidai in [Dem.] 60, 30-1. The ~archêgo\s tou= ge/nous~ is its physical forebear and progenitor, Poll. iii, 19: thus Apollo ~archêgo\s tou= ge/nous~ of the Seleucids, _CIG._ 3595, 26; cf. Isocr. 5, 32. Thus too the members of a phyle are actually described as the ~suggenei=s~ of their Hero eponymos: [Dem.] 60, 28.] [52\4: Thus we know of both ~dê=mos~ and ~ge/nos~ of the Ionidai, Philaïdai, Boutadai (for the intentional distinctness of the Eteoboutadai see Meier, p. 39), Kephalidai, Perithoïdai, etc.: Meier, _de gentil. Attica_, p. 35. Such demes were called ~apo\ tô=n ktisa/ntôn~, others ~apo\ tô=n to/pôn~: Arist. ~Athp.~ 21, 5 (in which case a name as much like a personal name as possible was extracted out of the place-name and made into the local Hero: cf. Wachsm., _Stadt Athen_, ii, 1, 248 ff.). Similar conditions existed at other places. In Teos the same names occur as ~pu/rgoi (= dê=moi~ and ~summori/ai (= ge/nê~, e.g. ~Kolôti/ôn, tou= Alki/mou pu/rgou, Alkimi/dês~ (also names which differ ~Nai/ôn, tou= Mêra/dou pu/rgou, Bruski/dês~), _CIG._ 3064, where see Böckh II, p. 651. In Rhodos a ~pa/tra~ as well as its larger inclusive group (~ktoi/na~) is called ~Amphinei=s~: _IGM. Aeg._ i, 695, ~Amphine/ôn pa/trai; Euteli/dai, Amphinei=s~, etc. (Ancestor worship ~progonika\ hiera/~ in the Rhodian ~ktoi=nai~ is vouched for by Hesych. ~ktu/nai~: see Martha, _BCH._ iv, 144.)]