μέτοικος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ὁ, ἡ,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[metic]], [[settler from abroad]], [[alien]] [[resident]] in a [[foreign]] [[city]], [[denizen]], A.''Th.''548, ''Supp.''994, [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]4.151, etc.; esp. at Athens, Th. 2.13, And.1.15, etc.; ξένος λόγῳ μ., opp. [[ἐγγενής]], [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Oedipus Tyrannus|OT]]''452, cf. Ar. ''Ach.''508, ''Eq.''347, ''SIG''799.25 (Cyzic., i A.D.); μέτοικος γῆς = one who has settled in a [[country]], [[Aeschylus|A.]]''[[The Persians|Pers.]]''319; μέτοικος δόμων, μέτοικος [[χώρας]], Id.''Ch.''971 (lyr.), S.''OC''934; ἐν τῇ τῶν πλησίον And.1.144; βροτοῖς οὔτε νεκροῖσιν μέτοικος, οὐ ζῶσιν, οὐ θανοῦσιν whose home is neither with the living nor the dead, S.''Ant.''852 (lyr.): metaph., of birds, as [[sojourner]]s in the [[heaven]]s, A.''Ag.''57 (anap.).<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[occupant]] of the same [[house]] with another, ''Sammelb.''5837 (ii A.D.).