(ἑταιρία/hetairía, also ἑταιρεία/hetaireía).
[1] In Crete a sub-category of citizenry
In Crete a sub-category of citizenry, with communal meals (andreia or syssitia: Aristot. Pol. 1272a 12ff.; Ath. 4,143a-b = Dosiadas FGrH 458 F 2) and a common cult of Zeus Hetaireîos (Hsch. s.v. ἑταιρεῖος/hetaireîos), but neither an association of family members nor part of a phyle, as was the hetairia in T…