metic

[ met-ik ]

noun

1. an alien resident of an ancient Greek city who paid a tax for the right to live there.

metic

/ ˈmɛtɪk /

noun

1. (in ancient Greece) an alien having some rights of citizenship in the city in which he lives

Word History and Origins

Origin of metic¹

1800–10; < Late Latin metycus, variant of metoecus < Greek métoikos emigrant, equivalent to met- met- + -oikos dwelling

Word History and Origins

Origin of metic¹

C19: from Greek metoikos, from meta- (indicating change) + -oikos dwelling

Example Sentences

The informer, if a slave or a metic, shall be rewarded by having the article made over to him.

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The freed man, when liberated, does not become a citizen, but is only a non-citizen or metic.

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A metic must purchase the choice fruit; but a stranger may pluck for himself and his attendant.

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It is Plato's greatest concession to the metic, as the bestowal of freedom is his greatest concession to the slave.

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Plato never thinks of making the metic, much less the slave, a citizen.

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