Φυλή

tribe

Translated by David Whitehead8 Nov 2010Vetting: high5 revisions

2 notes · 18 words
"The tribe, of itself, is ten thousand soldiers."1
[sc. For more on tribes] see in the 'clansmen' [entry].2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Φυλή· ἡ φυλὴ καθ' αὑτήν ἐστι μύριοι στρατιῶται. ζήτει ἐν τῷ γεννῆται.

Betacode
*fulh/: h( fulh\ kaq' au(th/n e)sti mu/rioi stratiw=tai. zh/tei e)n tw=| gennh=tai.

Notes (2)

  1. For this headword as a toponym see already phi 835.
  2. 1Quotation not identified by Adler but identifiable via the TLG as a faulty version (the figure should be thirty thousand) of Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 6.134. See on this Theodoridis' Photius edition, vol.II p.LXXXVII. ↩
  3. 2gamma 146, gamma 147. ↩

Neighbouring entries

φ835ΦυλήPhyleφ836Φυλλίςleaf; Phyllisφ837Φυλήtribeφ838ΦυλήPhyleφ839ΦυλιστιείμPhilistines
Revision history5 revisions · last 18 Dec 2013
  1. Revised — David Whitehead
  2. expanded n.1 — David Whitehead
  3. source identification; more keywords; tweaks — David Whitehead
  4. another note — David Whitehead
  5. set status — Catharine Roth
  6. Translated — David Whitehead

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