In the midst of such heavy privations, the demands on citizens and metics for military duty were multiplied beyond measure.
They were accompanied by nearly the whole population, metics and foreigners as well as citizens, so that the appearance was that of a collective emigration, like the flight to Salamis sixty-five years before.
Arnold (together with Göller and Poppo), following the Scholiast, explain these words as having particular reference to the meticsin the Athenian naval service.
Proclamation was made by Thrasybulus, that all metics who would lend aid should be put on the footing of isotely, or equal payment of taxes with citizens, exempt from the metic-tax and other special burdens.
Moreover the foreigners and metics would contribute without receiving anything, while the poor citizens would receive their triobolon per head, without having contributed anything.
The great body of substantial Athenian citizens as well as metics were now classified anew for purposes of taxation.
The children of metics may also be metics; and the period of twenty years, during which they are permitted to sojourn, is to count, in their case, from their fifteenth year.
It could not be said at Athens, nor was it ever contemplated by Plato, that all men, including metics and slaves, should be equal 'in the eye of the law.
Such things they thought we deserved, although as metics we had conducted ourselves better than those who are citizens.
The name Metics was applied to people of foreign origin who were established in Athens.
The metics could take no part in the government, could not marry a citizen, nor acquire land.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "metics" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
