Another word for handed-down

Long ago, they were handed down from fathers to the eldest son of a House.

9); in the rabbinic literature "the fathers" are the more eminent of the earlier rabbis whose sayings were handed down for the guidance of posterity.

He was attracted to it by his hatred of moderation and what he called "respectability" in any shape - a characteristic of which some amusing instances have been handed down.

But the history which the Judaean writers have handed down is influenced by the later hostility between Judah and Samaria.

The Judas legend, however, never really became popular, whereas that of Oedipus was handed down both orally and in written national tales (Albanian, Finnish, Cypriote).