¹ When Ehrenberg says the new phylai were purely local, not kinship groups, he forgets that descendants of the original members all belonged to the same phylai, irrespective of residence.

² He points out that Brea, though within the empire organisation, did not pay tribute, and thinks this may have been because it was too small and too poor. This is highly improbable; there were many minute communities which paid some tribute. If Brea ever survived as an ἀποικία, its position was the same as that of Amphipolis.