| 单词 | metic |
| 例句 | That’s the word he uses, “metic”, and you can see why it gives rise to smiles when it’s used to describe Emmanuel Macron. Orbiting Jupiter: my week with Emmanuel Macron 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z In the classical period four-fifths of the population of Attica were slaves and of the remainder half were metics. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z Thucydides tells us that a garrison of 16,000 inferior soldiers, old men, boys, and metics, sufficed to do this work. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z Thither resorted metics or resident foreigners, and much of the trade of Athens was in their hands, since they were less frequently employed in foreign service. Ancient States and Empires The metics could take no part in the government, could not marry a citizen, nor acquire land. History Of Ancient Civilization These resident aliens, or metics, steadily increased in number as the free Greeks disappeared. Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 Citizens were allowed a free market; foreigners and metics had to pay a toll. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 Such things they thought we deserved, although as metics we had conducted ourselves better than those who are citizens. The Orations of Lysias The daughter of the "metics," the resident foreigners, go as attendants of honor with them. A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life There were in Athens more than ten thousand families of metics, the majority of them bankers or merchants. History Of Ancient Civilization The void can only have been filled from the ranks of the metics or resident aliens and of the descendants of the far more numerous slave population. Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 And let the same rule be observed about the registration of the property of the metics. Laws For surely, in the case of the metics, they did not take a pledge from him. The Orations of Lysias The population contains a very high percentage of metics, and downright Barbarians,—indeed, long-bearded Babylonians, clean bronze Egyptians, grinning Ethiopians, never awaken the least comment, they are so familiar. A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life One hundred and fifty Aeginetans were numbered among the slain, while the loss incurred by the foreigners, metics, and sailors who had joined the relief party, reached a total of two hundred. Hellenica The children of metics may also be metics; and the period of twenty years, during which they are permitted to sojourn, is to count, in their case, from their fifteenth year. Laws This shall be the second law: He who engages in retail trade must be either a metic or a stranger. Laws First stand up and tell me whether you are a metic? The Orations of Lysias The owner is a metic; perhaps he claims to come from Rhodes, but the shrewd cast of his eyes and the dark hue of his skin gives a suggestion of the Syrian about him. A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life If a stranger smite one who is his elder by twenty years or more, he shall be imprisoned for two years, and a metic, in like case, shall suffer three years' imprisonment. Laws A metic must purchase the choice fruit; but a stranger may pluck for himself and his attendant. Laws Each of these shall be subdivided into three parts—one for freemen, another for servants, and the third shall be sold for the supply of artisans, strangers, and metics. Laws Are you a metic on condition of obeying the laws of the city or doing what you please? The Orations of Lysias The multitudes of slaves are of course without votes, and so is the numerous class of the important, cultivated, and often wealthy metics. A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life It is Plato's greatest concession to the metic, as the bestowal of freedom is his greatest concession to the slave. Laws Plato never thinks of making the metic, much less the slave, a citizen. Laws The same rule is to be observed about the property of metics. Laws He who is not a metic, if he comes to the rescue, shall have praise, and if he do not come, blame. Laws |
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