| 单词 |
phyle |
| 释义 |
‖ phyle Ancient Gr. Hist.|ˈfaɪliː| Pl. -æ. [a. Gr. ϕῡλή tribe.] In ancient Greece, a clan or tribe, based on supposed kinship; in Attica, after the reforms of Clisthenes, a political, administrative, and military unit, the division of the people into ten phylæ being mainly geographical; also the cavalry brigade furnished by an Attic tribe.
1863Blackw. Mag. Sept. 290 The Greek Eupatrid or the Roman Patrician, who had to court the votes of his Phyle or of his clients. 1868Smith's Dict. Gr. & Rom. Antiq. (ed. 7) 389 The tribes or phylæ [of Attica] were divided..each into three phratriæ. Ibid. 390 All foreigners admitted to the citizenship were registered in a phyle. |

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