Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

μέτοικος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μέτοικος

Structure: μετοικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. changing one's abode, emigrating and settling elsewhere
  2. an alien settled in a foreign city, a settler, emigrant, sojourner, one who has settled in
  3. a resident alien

Examples

  • ἔστι δή τισ Ἰσαίου λόγοσ ὑπὲρ Εὐμάθουσ, μετοίκου τινὸσ τῶν τραπεζιτευόντων Ἀθήνησιν, ὃν εἰσ δουλείαν ἀγόμενον ὑπὸ τοῦ κληρονομήσαντοσ τὸν ἀπηλευθερωκότα τῶν ἀστῶν τισ ἀφαιρεῖται καὶ τὴν ἀπολογίαν ποιεῖται περὶ αὐτοῦ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 54)
  • εἴ που δικίδιον εἶπασ εὖ κατὰ ξένου μετοίκου, τὴν νύκτα θρυλῶν καὶ λαλῶν ἐν ταῖσ ὁδοῖσ σεαυτῷ, ὕδωρ τε πίνων κἀπιδεικνὺσ τοὺσ φίλουσ τ’ ἀνιῶν, ᾤου δυνατὸσ εἶναι λέγειν. (Aristotle, Agon, epirrheme19)
  • προσελθὼν δέ τισ τῇ βουλῇ τῶν ἰδιωτῶν ἔφησεν εἰσ οἰκίαν μετοίκου τινὰσ ἑωρακέναι τῇ νουμηνίᾳ περὶ μέσασ νύκτασ εἰσιόντασ, ἐν οἷσ καὶ τὸν Ἀλκιβιάδην. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xiii, chapter 2 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. an alien settled in a foreign city

Related

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

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