单词 | perioecus |
释义 | perioecusn.ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > [noun] > of earth > of same parallel or meridian antoeci1568 antoecian1594 perioecus1594 antiscian1842 1594 R. Ashley tr. L. le Roy Interchangeable Course xi. f. 123v In our time the Castilians haue sayled beyond the Canaries, and bearing towardes the West, passed vnto our Perieces [Fr. à nos Perieces]. 1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xvi. ix. 584 Called Periæci, circumferentiall inhabitants [περίοικοι, id est, circumcolae]. 1625 P. Heylyn Μικρόκοσμος (rev. ed.) 10 Perioeci are such as dwell in the same parallel, on the same side of the Æquator, how distant soeuer they be East and West. a1682 Sir T. Browne Christian Morals (1716) i. 25 Fools, which are Antipodes unto the Wise, conceive themselves to be but their Periœci, and in the same parallel with them. 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I. (at cited word) Periœci..have the same Seasons of the Year..at the very same time; as also the same Length of Days and Nights. 1784 J. H. Moore Pract. Navigator (ed. 8) 43 The Periæci are those people of the Earth who live under the same Parallels, but opposite Meridians. 2. Ancient Greek History. A member of a community in the area surrounding a city, usually having the status of a half-citizen, subject, or slave. Chiefly in plural. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > town- or city-dweller > [noun] > dweller outside town or city > collectively out-folk1493 perioecus1846 1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece II. ii. vi. 483 The Periœkus was also a freeman and a citizen not of Sparta, but of some one of the hundred townships of Laconia. 1867 E. H. Plumtre in tr. Sophocles Tragedies 327 (note) In Sparta it [sc. the bow and arrow] was used only by the Perioeci. 1896 A. H. J. Greenidge Handbk. Greek Const. Hist. 81 We occasionally find a perioecus in very high command..although..never in a position which subordinates a Spartan to his control. 1949 Oxf. Classical Dict. 665/1 Perioikoi were found in Argolis, Crete, Elis, Thessaly, and elsewhere, but those of Sparta are the best known. 1979 P. A. Cartledge Sparta & Lakonia x. 184 If he was a Lakonian..his name..seems more appropriate for a citizen than a Perioikos. 1999 S. M. Burnstein et al. Anc. Greece 136 Like the Laconians, some of the Messenians became perioikoi, but most became helots. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1594 |
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