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metic

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Met´ic
n.1.(Gr. Antiq.) A sojourner; an immigrant; an alien resident in a Grecian city, but not a citizen.
The whole force of Athens, metics as well as citizens, and all the strangers who were then in the city.
- Jowett (Thucyd. ).
metic
Ancient Greece. a foreigner or a resident alien.
See also: Greece and Greeks
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Noun1.metic - an alien who paid a fee to reside in an ancient Greek city
alien, foreigner, noncitizen, outlander - a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country
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I mean that the father grows accustomed to descend to the level of his sons and to fear them, and the son is on a level with his father, he having no respect or reverence for either of his parents; and this is his freedom, and metic is equal with the citizen and the citizen with the metic, and the stranger is quite as good as either.
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