Citations:metœcus

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 * 1831, B. G. Niebuhr, Roman History, in The Foreign Quarterly Review, C. Roworth and Sons; Volume VIII, page #103:
 * The word Isotely, we must observe, though it included Isopolity, Sympolity, and Proxeny, was not synonymous with any of them ; a metœcus could obtain Isotely, and thus free himself from the necessity of being represented by a patron, be entitled to acquire landed property, &c. and yet ho stood after those in the former three classes, in point of rank.
 * 1837, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Athens, its Rise and Fall, Harper & Brothers; Volume II, Chapter II,
 * So anxious were the people to consecrate wholly to the Athenian name the glory of the spectacle, that at the great Dionysia no foreigner, nor even any metœcus (or alien settler), was permitted to dance in the choruses.
 * 1843, Thomas Hobbes, History of Thucydides, featured in The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, John Bohn; Volume VIII, page #185:
 * In consideration of services to the state, they were sometimes released from all the restraints affecting the person of the ordinary metœcus, and in all private relations placed on a footing with the citizen, but without acquiring any political rights.
 * 1897, Gilbert Murray, A History of Ancient Greek Literature, D. Appleton and Company; Chapter XI, page #232:
 * His father was a rich armourer, and a full citizen — not a ‘  Metœcus  ’ like Kephalus (p. 337).