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

  • τῇ πόλει δὲ ταῦτα ἐξαίρετα παῤ ἐμοῦ ὑπῆρξεν ἄν, αἱ μὲν διανομαὶ κατὰ μῆνα ἕκαστον δραχμαὶ τῷ μὲν ἀστῷ ἑκατόν, τῷ δὲ μετοίκῳ ἥμισυ τούτων, θαυμάσια δὲ ἐσ κάλλοσ θέατρα καὶ βαλανεῖα, καὶ τὴν θάλατταν ἄχρι πρὸσ τὸ Δίπυλον ἥκειν κἀνταῦθά που λιμένα εἶναι ἐπαχθέντοσ ὀρύγματι μεγάλῳ τοῦ ὕδατοσ, ὡσ τὸ πλοῖόν μου πλησίον ὁρμεῖν καταφανὲσ ὂν ἐκ τοῦ Κεραμεικοῦ. (Lucian, 42:2)
  • εἰσ ὃ δὲ οὗτοι παρελαμβάνοντο σαφῶσ παρίστησιν Ἀντιφάνησ ἐν Μετοίκῳ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 702)
  • πᾶσ δ’ ἐν μετοίκῳ γλῶσσαν εὔτυκον φέρει κακήν, τό τ’ εἰπεῖν εὐπετὲσ μύσαγμά πωσ. (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, episode, trochees6)
  • ἐφεῖται γὰρ εἰσ ταύτην τῷ βουλομένῳ τινὰ βλάπτειν καὶ πολίτῃ καὶ ξένῳ καὶ μετοίκῳ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 24:4)
  • ἀστῷ καὶ ἀστὸν μετοίκῳ ἐξισοῦσθαι, καὶ ξένον ὡσαύτωσ. (Plato, Republic, book 8 428:1)

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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