φυλή: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ἡ, (φύω) prop., <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> like [[φῦλον]], <b class="b2">a race, tribe;</b> but acc. to <span class="bibl">Dicaearch.Hist.9</span> [[a union formed in an organized community]] (whether <b class="b3">πόλις</b> or <b class="b3">ἔθνος</b>): hence, [[tribe]], i.e. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">I</span> [[a body]] of men [[united]] </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">1</span> <b class="b2">by supposed ties of blood and descent, clan</b>, such as the three Dorian [[tribes]], Rhetra ap.<span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Lyc.</span>6</span>, <span class="bibl">Hdt.5.68</span>, St.Byz. s. vv. <b class="b3">Ὑλλεῖς, Δυμᾶνες</b>, <span class="title">IG</span>4.596 (Argos); of the four Ionic [[tribes]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.5.69</span>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Ath.</span>8.3</span>, <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Sol.</span>19</span>, etc.; of the Laconian, <span class="bibl">Hdt.4.145</span>; of the old Roman, <span class="bibl">D.H.2.7</span>, etc.; of the Persian, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>1.2.5</span> and <span class="bibl">12</span>; of the Jewish, <span class="bibl">LXX<span class="title">Nu.</span>1.4</span>, al. (but also of subdivisions of the tribe (σκῆπτρον), ib. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">1 Ki.</span>10.20.21</span>), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ev.Matt.</span>19.28</span>, etc. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b2">by local habitation</b>, such as the ten local [[tribes]] at Athens formed by Cleisthenes, <span class="bibl">Hdt.5.69</span>, <span class="bibl">6.131</span>, <span class="title">IG</span>12.10.44, al.; or those formed by Servius at Rome, <b class="b3">φ. τοπικαί</b>, opp. <b class="b3">γενικαί</b>, <span class="bibl">D.H.4.14</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Plu. <span class="title">Rom.</span>20</span>; in Roman Egypt, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">BGU</span>1113.3</span> (i B.C.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PFlor.</span>39.4</span> (iv A. D.), etc., cf. (in general) <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Pol.</span>1264a8</span>, <span class="bibl">1300a25</span>, <span class="bibl">1309a12</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl. <span class="title">Lg.</span>753c</span>, etc. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> [[subdivision of the priests in each Egyptian temple]], <span class="title">OGI</span>56.24 (Canopus, iii B. C.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PAmh.</span>2.112.7</span> (ii A. D.), etc. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> [[military contingent furnished by a tribe]], among the Athenians, <span class="bibl">Hdt.6.111</span>, <span class="title">IG</span>12.1085; ὁπλιτῶν <span class="bibl">Th.6.98</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">3.90</span>, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">HG</span> 4.2.19</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>755c</span>, <span class="bibl">755d</span>; ταξίαρχος εἰς τὴν φυλὴν κατατάξας <span class="bibl">Lys.13.79</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> [[representatives of a tribe]], on political bodies, <b class="b3">φυλῆς πρυτανευούσης, προεδρευούσης</b>, <span class="title">IG</span>1.26a16, <span class="title">SIG</span>589.2 (Magn.Mae., ii B.C.), etc. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">III</span> of things, = [[γένος]], [[kind]], [[species]], κατὰ φυλὰς διεκρίνομεν τὰ ἔπιπλα <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Oec.</span>9.6</span>.</span>