The Aeginetan patrons of Pindar were a closed and specially privileged group within their own aristocratic communities, tracing themselves back to the lineage of heroes known as the Aiakidai. See the comment at N.7.10. In the Aeginetan odes of Pindar, as here at N.7.70, the noun patrā means not ‘fatherland’ but ‘patriliny’, referring to a given branch of aristocrats claiming descent from the Aiakidai. Here at N.7.70, the name of the patriliny is Euxenidai.