φῡλή,ἡ, (φύω) prop.,
A.
like φῦλον ,a race, tribe;but acc. to Dicaearch.Hist. 9
a union formed in an organized community(whetherπόλιςorἔθνος): hence,tribe,i.e.
I. a bodyof menunited
1. by supposed ties of blood and descent, clan,such as the three Doriantribes,Rhetra ap. Plu. Lyc. 6 , Hdt. 5.68 , St.Byz. s. vv.Ὑλλεῖς, Δυμᾶνες,
IG 4.596 (Argos); of the four Ionictribes,
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, LXX Nu. 1.4 , al. (but also of subdivisions of the tribe (σκῆπτρον), ib. 1 Ki. 10.20.21 ), Ev.Matt. 19.28 , etc.
2. by local habitation,such as the ten localtribesat Athens formed by Cleisthenes, Hdt. 5.69 , 6.131 , IG 12.10.44 , al.; or those formed by Servius at Rome,φ. τοπικαί,opp.γενικαί,
D.H. 4.14 , cf. Plu. Rom. 20 ; in Roman Egypt, BGU 1113.3
(i B.C.), PFlor. 39.4
(iv A. D.), etc., cf. (in general) Arist. Pol. 1264a8 , 1300a25 , 1309a12 , Pl. Lg. 753c , etc.