Even if a slave becomes freed, he does not become an Athenian citizen; he is only a "metic," a resident foreigner, and his old master, or some other Athenian, must be his patron and representative in every kind of legal business.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life] Reference

First stand up and tell me whether you are a metic?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Orations of Lysias] Reference

"You know, for a metic, she serves pretty tasty wine.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]

"The sunshades carried by the metic women to protect the Athenian women?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]

But the convoluted arith - metic also holds a broader lesson about Bush's second term.    From Wordnik.com.  [BUSH'S NEW WORRIES FOR THE ECONOMY] Reference

Are you a metic on condition of obeying the laws of the city or doing what you please?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Orations of Lysias] Reference

It was inspired by Platonic and Her - metic belief in the unique cosmic status of Man, by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

No. Since my wife's half sister is a metic, my wife had little social relations with her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]

He who is not a metic, if he comes to the rescue, shall have praise, and if he do not come, blame.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laws] Reference

This shall be the second law: — He who engages in retail trade must be either a metic or a stranger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laws] Reference

With a good tailwind, it feels like you're flying, and with a side wind, you need, well, an anti-metic.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Heart Truck Stops, Part XVIII] Reference

"Someone always gives me some, metic though I am, but what good is the tough stuff if you haven't got any teeth.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]

A force of metic hoplites amounting to at least three thousand took part in the invasion, and also a large number of light-armed troops.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference

Tomorrow I would be one of the officials, seeing to it that no metic, including my half brother and my nephew, entered the sacred summit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]

Governors, falling freely without guilt or terror, and loved by Nature as a man is loved by a woman, Her - metic man loves the mystery and excitement of life.    From Wordnik.com.  [HERMETICISM] Reference

Ger, gerim are words that denote status, not ethnic origin; the ger, Israelite or not, who lives within a community is a resident alien, a metic, as an Israelite was in Babylon during the exile.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love Which Neighbor?] Reference

But my father's affair with a Syracusan woman had made my half brother a metic -- able to live and work in Athens, paying taxes, attending festivals, but not able to vote -- a kind of half citizen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]

I looked at Cleasta, wondering what had corrupted her enough to steal the knife for her lover's plot: envy of her supercilious sister, years of living as a poor metic, the violent nature of her Naxian lover?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]

The owner is a metic; perhaps he claims to come from.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life] Reference

These illustrations show the value of algebra in explaining simple arith - metic phenomena.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

I've kept metic ulous notes as I've been knitting of which row I'm on and what I did, and that has helped considerably.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sommer Designs] Reference

As any scientist knows, the chance that a mistake will be made goes up in proportion to the number of arith - metic computations required to solve a problem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Alphametics One of the great strides made by Western civilization (which was learned from Arabic civilization) was the use of a place value system for our arith - metic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Truck ​ asaur ​ us-a Seatt ​ le - ​ based elect ​ ro quart ​ et-is ​ trekk ​ ing down I-5 to drop metic ​ ulous ​ ly tweak ed analo ​ g track ​ s. ​.    From Wordnik.com.  [Portland Music, Art, Events, Entertainment, Sustainability | PDX PIPELINE] Reference

The clamor of traffic around the popular flower stalls ceases; everybody who is not a slave or metic (and these would form a large fraction of the crowd of marketers) begins to edge down toward one end of the Agora.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life] Reference

"She didn't want her daughter's old tunic worn by a metic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]

And not as a metic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boat of a Million Years]

Let a metic purchase the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laws] Reference

My half brother is a merchant and a metic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]

I never was any good at mental arith - metic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sands of Mars]

A her-metic woman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ece Ayhan] Reference

A metic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]

Stock market research metic gitano, aristolochiaceae, hemipteran, lowlife, scatophagy, or nata de pina.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rational Review] Reference