ἔθνος, εος, τό:
(ϝέθνος,[[compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.87, 7.115, +others)] Refs 8th c.BC+]: - number of people living together, company, body of men, ἑτάρων ἔ., ἔ. ἑταίρων, band of comrades, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.32, 7.115, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἔθνος λαῶν host of men, [[ 13.495 ] Refs]; of particular tribes, Αυκίων μέγα ἔ. [[ 12.330; Ἀχαιῶν ἔ. 17.552: _plural_, ἔθνεα πεζῶν 11.724, compare 2.91; ἔ. νεκρῶν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.526 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of animals, ἔ. μελισσάων, ὀρνίθων, μυιάων, swarms, flocks, etc., [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.87, 459, 469; ἔθνη θηρῶν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1147 (Lyric poetry), “Ant.” 344 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἔ. ἀνέρων, γυναικῶν, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.66, “P.” 4.252 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἔ. βρότεον, θνατόν, [[ [prev. author] “N.” 3.74, 11.42 ] Refs]; ἔ. τόδε, of the Erinyes, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 366 (Lyric poetry). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2 after [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+], nation, people, τὸ Μηδικὸν ἔ. (γένος being a subdivision of ἔθνος) [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.101 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἔ. ἠπειρογενές, μαχαιροφόρον, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 43, 56 (_anapaest meter_), etc.; τῶν μηδισάντων ἐθνέων τῶν Ἑλληνικῶν 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.106. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2.b later, τὰ ἔ. foreign, barbarous nations, opposed to Ἕλληνες, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1324b10 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἔ. νομάδων, of Bedawîn, [[ “LW” 2203 (from Syria)] Refs]; at Athens, athletic clubs of non-Athenians, [[ Inscriptiones Graecae 2.444, +others; in LXX ] Refs], non-Jews,[[LXX.Psa.2.1, +others,cf. NT.Act.7.45; “Gentiles”, τῶν ἐθνῶν τε καὶ Ἰουδαίων [prev. work] 14.5, etc.; used of “Gentile Christians, Ep. Rom.” 15.27. ] LXX+NT]