What is "metics"

Usage examples of "metics".

The Alexandrian citizenship for all Jews and Metics who have lived in the city for more than three years.

The skills of Alexandria repose with the Jews and Metics, and the latter will accept you because the Jews do.

But, after Caesar sailed away, the million Greeks of the city had insisted that if the Jews and Metics had the citizenship, they ought to have it too.

Cleopatra reneged on her promise and stripped the Jews and Metics of the Alexandrian citizenship while allowing the Greeks to keep it.

Greeks, Jews, Metics, hybrid Egyptians perished in roughly equal numbers.

The Jews and Metics proved doughty allies, marshaled soldiers of their own and turned all their small metal shops and foundries into armaments factories.

Mithridates of Pergamum had shifted himself to a comfortable palace with his wife, Berenice, and their daughter, Laodice, and Rufrius was busy building a garrison for the wintering troops to the east of the city near the hippodrome racetrack, thinking it prudent to quarter his legions adjacent to the Jews and Metics.