| The ten phylae were made approximately equal by Cleisthenes, and since they were large units, and a man belonged to his father's phyle, they would remain approximately equal. |
| The three senior archons were taken each year from different phylae, and there were periods within which duplication of phylae in holding the individual offices was not permitted. |
| The phylae had been urban and affiliation to them had been limited to the urban population and to that of the adjacent villages. |
| We simply cannot tell whether families formed phratries, phratries phylae, and phylae tribes, or whether, on the contrary, the tribe was first and it broke up into phylae, phratries, and sub-groups. |
