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|Definition=ἡ, ([[φύω]]) prop.,<br><span class="bld">A</span> like [[φῦλον]], a [[race]], [[tribe]]; but acc. to Dicaearch.Hist.9 a [[union]] [[form]]ed in an [[organized]] [[community]] (whether [[πόλις]] or [[ἔθνος]]): hence, [[tribe]], i.e.<br><span class="bld">I</span> [[a body]] of men [[united]]<br><span class="bld">1</span> by supposed ties of [[blood]] and [[descent]], [[clan]], such as the [[three]] [[Dorian]] [[tribe]]s, Rhetra ap.Plu.Lyc.6, Hdt.5.68, St.Byz. s. vv. [[Ὑλλεῖς]], [[Δυμᾶνες]], IG4.596 (Argos); of the four [[Ionic]] [[tribe]]s, Hdt.5.69, Arist.Ath.8.3, Plu.Sol.19, etc.; of the [[Laconian]], Hdt.4.145; of the [[old]] [[Roman]], D.H.2.7, etc.; of the [[Persian]], X.Cyr.1.2.5 and 12; of the [[Jewish]], LXXNu.1.4, al. (but also of [[subdivision]]s of the [[tribe]] ([[σκῆπτρον]]), ib. 1 Ki.10.20.21), Ev.Matt.19.28, etc.<br><span class="bld">2</span> by [[local]] [[habitation]], such as the [[ten]] [[local]] [[tribe]]s at [[Athens]] formed by [[Cleisthenes]], Hdt.5.69, 6.131, IG12.10.44, al.; or those formed by [[Servius]] at [[Rome]], φ. τοπικαί, opp. γενικαί, D.H.4.14, cf. Plu. Rom.20; in [[Roman]] [[Egypt]], BGU1113.3 (i B.C.), PFlor.39.4 (iv A. D.), etc., cf. (in general) Arist.Pol.1264a8, 1300a25, 1309a12, Pl. Lg.753c, etc.<br><span class="bld">3</span> [[subdivision of the priests in each Egyptian temple]], OGI56.24 ([[Canopus]], iii B. C.), PAmh.2.112.7 (ii A. D.), etc.<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[military contingent furnished by a tribe]], among the [[Athenians]], Hdt.6.111, IG12.1085; ὁπλιτῶν Th.6.98, cf. 3.90, X.HG 4.2.19, Pl.Lg.755c, 755d; [[ταξίαρχος]] εἰς τὴν φυλὴν κατατάξας Lys.13.79.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[representatives of a tribe]], on [[political]] bodies, φυλῆς πρυτανευούσης, προεδρευούσης, IG1.26a16, SIG589.2 (Magn.Mae., ii B.C.), etc.<br><span class="bld">III</span> of things, = [[γένος]], [[kind]], [[species]], κατὰ φυλὰς διεκρίνομεν τὰ [[ἔπιπλα]] X.Oec.9.6.