metic

[ met-ik ]

/ ˈmɛt ɪk /

an alien resident of an ancient Greek city who paid a tax for the right to live there.

Origin of metic

1800–10; < Late Latin metycus, variant of metoecus < Greek métoikos emigrant, equivalent to met- met- + -oikos dwelling

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

Laws |Plato
Plato never thinks of making the metic, much less the slave, a citizen.

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

Laws |Plato
It is Plato's greatest concession to the metic, as the bestowal of freedom is his greatest concession to the slave.

Laws |Plato

The freed man, when liberated, does not become a citizen, but is only a non-citizen or metic.

Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume IV (of 4) |George Grote

metic

/ (ˈmɛtɪk) /

(in ancient Greece) an alien having some rights of citizenship in the city in which he lives

C19: from Greek metoikos, from meta- (indicating change) + -oikos dwelling