单词 | phyle |
释义 | phylen. Ancient Greek History. 1. Any of various social groups or political divisions within a community, based on or sustained by ties of kinship; a tribe, a clan; esp. a major political division in Attica created by the reforms of Cleisthenes (c507 b.c.) and having various administrative, military, and social functions.The ten new phylai brought into being by the political reorganization of Cleisthenes were established initially on a geographical basis, although membership thereafter became hereditary in the male line. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > clan > [noun] > ancient Greek phyle1851 1851 W. Smith New Classical Dict. Greek & Rom. Biogr., Mythol. & Geogr. (N.Y. ed.) 15/2 The eponymous hero of the phyle called the Ægidæ at Sparta, son of Ceolyeus, and grandson of Theras, the founder of the colony in Thera. 1863 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 290 The Greek Eupatrid or the Roman Patrician, who had to court the votes of his Phyle or of his clients. 1891 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 12 30 The increase of the Phylae involved changes in the institutions based upon the phylic system. 1949 Oxf. Classical Dict. 690/2 The phylae were kinship groups, comprising the entire citizen-body. They were corporate bodies with their own priests and officials..; but they were also administrative and military units of the city. 1975 J. S. Traill (title) The political organization of Attica: a study of the demes, trittyes, and phylai, and their representation in the Athenian Council. 2. A cavalry unit provided and manned by an Attic phyle (sense 1). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > unit of army > [noun] > ancient Greek unit hipparchy1616 lochos1616 mora1808 taxis1850 phyle1906 1906 N.E.D. (at cited word) Phyle,..the cavalry brigade furnished by an Attic tribe. 1993 I. G. Spence Cavalry of Classical Greece ii. 49 Individual cavalrymen, each phyle (or squadron), and the corps as a whole, were apparently able to engage in both close-quarter and longer-range combat. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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