A.race, tribe, or class, “οὔ ποτε φ. ὁμοῖον ἀθανάτων τε θεῶν χαμαὶ ἐρχομένων τ᾽ ἀνθρώπων” Il.5.441; “γυναικῶν φῦλον” Hes.Th. 1021; θεῶν ἐς φῦλον ib.202, cf. 965, Op.199: “φῦλον ἀοιδῶν” Od.8.481: in Ep. more freq. in pl., φῦλα ἀνθρώπων, θεῶν, Il. 14.361, 15.54; φῦλα γυναικῶν, ἐπικούρων, Γιγάντων, 9.130, 17.220, Od.7.206; “ἄγρια φῦλα, μυίας” Il.19.30; φῦλα μελισσέων, of a swarm of bees, Hes. Fr.14.5; in later Poets and Prose usu. in sg. (but pl., “φ. ποικίλα θηρῶν” Ar.Av.777 (lyr.); φῦλα πόντου, of fishes, E.Fr.27 (lyr.)), “φ. ματαιότατον” Pi.P.3.21; “ἓν φ. ἀνθρώπων” S.Fr.591.1 (lyr.); τὸ ἄλλο φ. the rest of the people, Id.OT19; φῦλον ὀρνίθων the race of birds, Id.Ant. 342 (lyr.), cf. Ar.Av.231,253 (both lyr.): πτηνῶν ib.1088 (lyr.); “τὸ πτηνὸν φ.” Pl.Sph.220b; “τὸ κηρυκικὸν φ.” Id.Plt.260d, cf. Cra.398e; τὸ φ. . . οὐ . . ῥᾷστον συλλαβεῖν τί ποτ᾽ ἐστίν, ὁ σοφιστής the sophist tribe, Id.Sph.218c; κατὰ Ὅμηρον καὶ Ἡράκλειτον καὶ πᾶν τὸ τοιοῦτον φ. and all the tribe of them, Id.Tht.160d; “φ. ἀμφορεαφόρων” Eup.187; φ. βουλευτικόν, = Lat. ordo senatorius, D.C.59.9: metaph., “φ. τῶν ἡδονῶν” Luc.Nigr.16.
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