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metic Gr. Antiq.|ˈmɛtɪk|
[irreg. ad. Gr. µέτοικος (late L. metœcus, metycus), f. µετα- (denoting change) + -οικος dwelling, οἰκεῖν to dwell.]
A resident alien in a Greek city, having some of the privileges of citizenship.
1808W. Mitford Hist. Greece xxi. III. 12 An imposition, in the manner of a poll-tax, on the metics, those numerous free residents in Attica who were not Athenian citizens. 1881Jowett Thucyd. I. 114 The entire Athenian force, including the metics, invaded the territory of Megara. 1974Sci. Amer. Sept. 95/1 In Athens the free immigrants called metics, who were permanent residents rather than passing traders, may have outnumbered the slaves.
transf.1904Speaker 23 Jan. 401/1 The British Imperialists..have found that the rich metics are their Masters. 1921Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Nov. 731/2 The proportion of the horrific in Poe's poetry..is entirely different; he is a metic in the land of shadows. 1936Ibid. 14 Nov. 918/4 Sir Harry Preston was not Brightonian by birth—but then most of the town's great men have been metics.
attrib.1850Grote Greece ii. lxv. (1862) V. 592 Exempt from the metic-tax and other special burthens. |