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  • As to the men of Phyle, they too blocked the street at the opposite end, and facing the foe.

    Hellenica 2007

  • Returning from the pursuit, the victors set up a trophy, got together all the arms they had taken, besides baggage, and retired again to Phyle.

    Hellenica 2007

  • Phyle. 103 The weather was brilliant, and the Thirty marched out of the city to repel the invader; with them were the Three Thousand and the Knights.

    Hellenica 2007

  • Baffled by this all-pervading enemy they beat a retreat to the city, but not without the sacrifice of many of their camp-followers, who fell a prey to the men in Phyle.

    Hellenica 2007

  • But by this time the small garrison above them had increased tenfold, until there were now something like seven hundred men collected in Phyle; and with these Thrasybulus one night descended.

    Hellenica 2007

  • But now Thrasybulus at the head of his followers, by this time about one thousand strong, descended from Phyle and reached Piraeus in the night.

    Hellenica 2007

  • The men from Phyle seemed at first inclined to dispute their passage, but as the wide circuit of the walls needed a defence beyond the reach of their still scanty numbers, they fell back in a compact body upon Munychia. 108 Then the troops from the city poured into the Agora of Hippodmus. 109

    Hellenica 2007

  • After Theramenes 'execution, many citizens left the walled city: some regrouped in the distant and mountainous deme of Phyle, planning to topple the Thirty (among them was Socrates' childhood friend, Chaerephon); others went only as far as the Piraeus where “the Ten” (including Charmides) chosen by the Thirty were less effective at suppression than the Thirty themselves.

    Socrates Nails, Debra 2005

  • Athenians from Phyle setting upon their thirty rulers and overpowering them, Lysander, coming home in haste, persuaded the

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • For Thrasybulus and those who with him occupied Phyle, set out upon that enterprise from Thebes, with arms and money, and secrecy and a point to start from, provided for them by the

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

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