patrius adj. pater, of a father, fatherly, paternal: animus, T.: ius et potestas: maiestas, L.: poenas patrias persequi: mos: amor, V.: arae, i. e. of Father Apollo, O.: patrium mimae donare fundum laremque, H.: acerbitas, i. e. of his father, L.
—Of ancestors, ancestral, family, traditional: di, household gods: hoc patrium est, consuefacere filium, etc., T.: virtus, Cs.: mos, hereditary: cultūsque habitūsque locorum, V.