eupatrids

Everyone gave up something; my father said the eupatrids gave up too much.

The Praise Singer Renault, Mary 1978

Thucydides, their new champion, united with natural gifts whatever advantage might result from the memory of Cimon; and his connexion with that distinguished warrior, to whom he was brother-in-law, served to keep together the various partisans of the faction, and retain to the eupatrids something of the respect and enthusiasm which the services of Cimon could not fail to command, even among the democracy.

Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

But Thucydides, seeking to render his party as strong, as compact, and as united as possible, brought the main bulk of the eupatrids to act together in one body.

Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Hitherto the eupatrids and the people, though ever in dispute, had not been absolutely and totally divided; the struggles of either faction being headed by nobles, scarcely permitted to the democracy the perilous advantage of the cry -- that the people were on one side, and the nobles on the other.

Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838