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μέτοικος

metoikos · ὁ

settler from abroad, alien resident in a foreign city, denizen

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 44 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

μέτοικος · metoikos — LSJ

settler from abroad, alien resident in a foreign city, denizen, one who has settled in, whose home is, with, sojourners

settler from abroad, alien resident in a foreign city, denizen, A. Th. 548, Supp. 994, Hdt. 4.151, etc.; esp. at Athens, Th. 2.13, And. 1.15, etc.; ξένος λόγῳ μ., opp. ἐγγενής, S. OT 452, cf. Ar. Ach. 508, Eq. 347, SIG 799.25 (Cyzic., i A.D.); μ. γῆς one who has settled in a country, A. Pers. 319; μ. δόμων, χώρας, Id. Ch. 971 (lyr.), S. OC 934; ἐν τῇ τῶν πλησίον And. 1.144; βροτοῖς οὔτε <νεκρὸς> νεκροῖσιν μέτοικος, οὐ ζῶσιν, οὐ θανοῦσιν whose home is neither with the living nor the dead, S. Ant.

2 occupant of the same house with

occupant of the same house with another, Sammelb. 5837 (ii A.D.).

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Where it came from

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