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‖ periœci, n. pl.|pɛrɪˈiːsaɪ|
In 6 sometimes perieces.
[med.L., a. Gr. περίοικοι, pl. of περίοικος, lit. dwelling round, neighbouring; also as below. In F. périœciens; in 16th c. periéciens, perièces: see quot. 1594.]
1. Dwellers under the same parallel of latitude, but opposite meridians. (Cf. antœci.)
1594R. Ashley tr. Loys le Roy 123 b, In our time the Castilians haue sayled beyond the Canaries, and bearing towards the West, passed vnto our Perieces. 1652–62Heylin Cosmogr. Introd. (1674) 20/1 ‘Periœci’ are such as dwell in the same Parallel, on the same side of the æquator, how distant soever they be East and West. 1682Sir T. Browne Chr. Mor. i. §23 Fools, which are Antipodes unto the Wise, conceive themselves to be but their Periœci, and in the same parallel with them. 1704J. Harris Lex. Techn. I. s.v., Periœci..have the same Seasons of the Year..at the very same time; as also the same Length of Days and Nights. 1772J. H. Moore Pract. Navig. (1828) 53.
2. Gr. Hist. The dwellers in the country round a city, or in the surrounding country towns and villages. Hence periˈœcic (-ˈœkic), periˈœcid (-ˈœkid) adjs.
1846Grote Greece ii. vi. II. 483 The Periœkus was also a freeman and a citizen not of Sparta, but of some one of the hundred townships of Laconia. Ibid., The island of Cythêra..one of the Periœkic townships. Ibid. vii. II. 580 The dominion of Elis over her Periœkid territory. 1869Rawlinson Anc. Hist. 127 The injudicious severity with which Argos treated her perioecic cities. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets iii. 85 The bitter hatred and contempt which the Greek nobles in a Dorian state felt for the Perioeci, or farmers of the neighbouring country. |