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μετοίκιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: μετοίκιον μετοίκιου

Structure: μετοικι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. the tax paid by the
  2. the feast of migration

Declension

Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἢ τοῦ μετοικίου; (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 173:3)
  • πῶσ γὰρ οὐκ αἰσχρὸν Αἰγινήτασ μὲν τουτουσί, νῆσον οἰκοῦντασ οὕτω μικρὰν καὶ οὐδὲν ἔχοντασ ἐφ’ ᾧ μέγα χρὴ φρονεῖν αὐτούσ, Λάμπιν, ὃσ μέγιστα ναυκλήρια κέκτηται τῶν Ἑλλήνων, καὶ κατεσκεύακεν τὴν πόλιν αὐτοῖσ καὶ τὸ ἐμπόριον, μηδέπω καὶ τήμερον πολίτην πεποιῆσθαι, ἀλλὰ μόλισ τῆσ ἀτελείασ αὐτὸν ἠξιωκέναι τῆσ τοῦ μετοικίου· (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 296:2)
  • ταύτην τὴν ἄνθρωπον, τὴν τοιαῦτ’ εὐεργετήσασαν αὐτόν, ὡσ πολὺσ παρ’ ὑμῖν ἔπνει καὶ λαμπρόσ, μεμφομένην τι καὶ τούτων ὑπομιμνῄσκουσαν καὶ ἀξιοῦσαν εὖ παθεῖν τὸ μὲν πρῶτον ῥαπίσασ καὶ ἀπειλήσασ ἀπέπεμψεν ἀπὸ τῆσ οἰκίασ, ὡσ δ’ οὐκ ἐπαύεθ’ ἡ ἄνθρωποσ, ἀλλὰ γυναίου πρᾶγμ’ ἐποίει καὶ πρὸσ τοὺσ γνωρίμουσ προσιοῦσ’ ἐνεκάλει, λαβὼν αὐτὸσ αὐτοχειρίᾳ πρὸσ τὸ πωλητηρίον τοῦ μετοικίου ἀπήγαγεν· (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 67:1)

Synonyms

  1. the tax paid by the

  2. the feast of migration

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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