Words With Similar Definitions
Greek	1: homoethnia	2: phulon	3: genea	4: phularchos	5: monophulos
Latin	1: tributim	2: natio	3: Branchidae	4: Druides	5: Assius
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Words That Regularly Appear With phulê
In Perseus Texts:	hekastos	deka	duo	dôdeka	phulazô
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phu_lê, hê, (phuô) prop., like phulon, a race, tribe; but acc. to Dicaearch.Hist.9 a union formed in an organized community (whether polis or ethnos): hence, tribe, i.e.

I. a body of men united

1. by supposed ties of blood and descent, clan, such as the three Dorian tribes, Rhetra ap.Plu.Lyc.6, Hdt. 5.68, St.Byz. s. vv. Hulleis, Dumanes, IG4.596 (Argos); of the four Ionic tribes, Hdt. 5.69, Aristot. Ath. Pol. 8.3, Plut. Sol. 19, etc.; of the Laconian, Hdt. 4.145; of the old Roman, D.H.2.7, etc.; of the Persian, Xen. Cyrop. 1.2.5 and au=Xen. Cyrop. 1.2.12=lr; of the Jewish, LXXNu.1.4, al. (but also of subdivisions of the tribe (skêptron), IB2=LXX 1 Ki.10.20.21), Ev.Matt.19.28, etc.

2. by local habitation, such as the ten local tribes at Athens formed by Cleisthenes, Hdt. 5.69, au=Hdt. 6.131, IG12.10.44, al.; or those formed by Servius at Rome, ph. topikai, opp. genikai, 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) Aristot. Pol. 1264a8, au=Aristot. Pol. 1300a25, au=Aristot. Pol. 1309a12, Plat. Laws 753c, etc.

3. subdivision of the priests in each Egyptian temple, OGI56.24 (Canopus, iii B. C.), PAmh.2.112.7 (ii A. D.), etc.

2. representatives of a tribe, on political bodies, phulês prutaneuousês, proedreuousês, IG1.26a16, SIG589.2 (Magn.Mae., ii B.C.), etc.