| 单词 | metic |
| 释义 | metic (once / 155518 pages) n WORD FAMILY metic: metics USAGE EXAMPLESIn the classical period four-fifths of the population of Attica were slaves and of the remainder half were metics. Various, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edit...(2011) Thucydides tells us that a garrison of 16,000 inferior soldiers, old men, boys, and metics, sufficed to do this work. Mahaffy, J. P., Rambles and Studies in Greece(2011) Foreigners.—The name Metics was applied to people of foreign origin who were established in Athens. Seignobos, Charles, History Of Ancient Civilization(2010) n an alien who paid a fee to reside in an ancient Greek city Hyper 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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