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Example sentences for "metic"

Lexicographically close words:
methoughts; methyl; methylated; methylene; methylic; metics; meticulous; meticulously; metier; meting
  1. If he has a son, the son may also exercise the same art and reside as a metic in the city for twenty years, but no longer; beginning from the age of fifteen.

  2. The son feels himself equal to his father, the disciple to his teacher, the metic to the citizen, the wife to her husband, the slave to his master.

  3. Any metic who may render special service to the city, may have his term prolonged, the magistrates and the citizens consenting.

  4. 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.

  5. This shall be the second law: He who engages in retail trade must be either a metic or a stranger.

  6. A metic must purchase the choice fruit; but a stranger may pluck for himself and his attendant.


  7. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "metic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.