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What is a phyle?

What is a phyle? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (historical) A local division of the people in ancient Athens; a clan; a tribe.
  2. (historical) A subdivision of the priestly caste in ancient Egypt; headed by a phylarch.
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Presently Thrasybulus, with about seventy followers, sallied out from Thebes, and made himself master of the fortress of phyle.
As to the men of phyle, they too blocked the street at the opposite end, and facing the foe.
There was a marked rustle of the curtains in front of Professor phyle at this episode.
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.
Hence, he adds, were derived the names of the demes in the Dionysiac phyle at Alexandria, viz.
When you chose to condemn the ten generals, my phyle supplied the Prytanes, and I alone stood out against you.

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