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Definition of Metics
1. metic [n] - See also: metic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Metics
Literary usage of Metics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History Of Greece: From the Earliest Period to the Close Of the Generation by George Grote (1869)
"Both were metics, wealthy men, and engaged in a manufactory of shields, wherein
they employed 120 slaves. ..."
2. Readings in Greek History, from Homer to the Battle of Chaeronea: A by Ida Carleton Thallon (1914)
"TREATMENT OF THE metics The most horrible instance of brutality and greed is ...
Theognis and Piso spoke in the meetings of the Thirty about the metics, ..."
3. A History of Greece by George Grote (1850)
"Both were metics, wealthy men, and engaged in a manufactory of shields, wherein
they employed 120 slaves. ..."
4. The Ancient World from the Earliest Times to 800 A.D. by Willis Mason West (1904)
"The metics, or Strangers. — Solon's reforms had concerned tribesmen only; and
probably in his day few strangers lived long in Attica. ..."
5. The Story of Greece by James Albert Harrison (1885)
"The metics or aliens, who were tradespeople or settlers, received the right of
Athenian citizenship, and the people at last began to feel as if they really ..."
6. A Companion to School Classics by James Gow (1893)
"The census of BC 309, above mentioned, returned 10000 metics, ... The metics were
enrolled in a list, and each adult male paid a yearly tax ..."
7. Sycophancy in Athens by John Oscar Lofberg (1917)
"Six names were allowed to be entered, three citizens and three metics.20 Modern
... The reason for making the number of metics and citizens who might be ..."
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