单词 | naucrary |
释义 | naucraryn. Ancient History. Each of the forty-eight political divisions of the citizens of Athens. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > an administrative division of territory > [noun] > in ancient Greece demos1762 deme1833 obe1835 naucrary1836 ethnos1910 1836 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece II. xi. 52 Solon..appears to have laid the foundation of the Attic navy, by charging the forty-eight sections, called naucraries, into which the tribes had been divided for financial purposes, each with the equipment of a galley, as well as with the mounting of two horsemen. 1847 G. Grote Hist. Greece III. 72 The forty-eight naukraries are thus a systematic subdivision of the four tribes. 1874 Amer. Cycl. II. 94/2 Later another division seems to have been made——purely for political and military convenience and without destroying the former——of each tribe into three trittys..,and of each trittys into four naukraries. 1919 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 24 707 Out of the naucrary, a conception of a township as the unit of a political system was finally elaborated. 1985 Representations Summer 45 Tragedy seems never to have been organized as a competition by tribe or by naucrary or by any other subgrouping of the polis. 1994 Amer. Hist. Rev. 99 203 He deals with the obscure Athenian local units called naucraries, which he takes as covering all Attica. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1836 |
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