Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Phylobasĭleis

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Phylobasĭleis

（φυλοβασιλεῖς), “Tribe-kings.” Officers of the Athenian tribes (see Phylé), of whose origin and functions little is known. They existed earlier than the time of Clisthenes, and were probably four in number, or one for each tribe. They presided in certain courts (e. g. the Prytaneum), and sat with the Archon Basileus in the Basileum. They were probably charged with religious rather than legal functions.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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