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"Beside her," added a Eupatrid, who pretended to be better informed than any other person upon all manner of subjects, "beside her the daughter of Cœlus and the Sea would seem but a mere Ethiopian servant."

He did not proceed, you may feel assured, to fix his choice upon some crabbed philosopher of frowning mien, with a flood of gray-and-white beard rolling down over a mantle in proud tatters; nor a warrior who could talk of nothing save ballista, catapults, and scythed chariots; nor a sententious Eupatrid full of counsels and politic maxims; but Gyges, whose reputation for gallantry caused him to be regarded as a connoisseur in regard to women.

Eupatrid, ū-pat′rid, n. a member of the Athenian aristocracy.

Between the Eupatrid oligarchy and the rule of Peisistratus there comes the timocracy of Solon.

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