"Resident aliens, or Metœci, are non-citizens possessed of
personal freedom, and settled in Attica. Their number, in the
flourishing periods of the State, might amount to 45,000, and
therefore was about half that of the citizens."
_G. F. Schömann,
Antiquity of Greece: The State,
part 3, chapter 3, section 2._
METON, The year of.
"Hitherto [before the age of Pericles] the Athenians had only
had the Octaëteris, i. e., the period of eight years, of which
three were composed of thirteen months, in order thus to make
the lunar years correspond to the solar. But as eight such
solar years still amount to something short of 99 lunar
months, this cycle was insufficient for its purpose. … Meton
and his associates calculated that a more correct adjustment
might be obtained within a cycle of 6,940 days. These made up
235 months, which formed a cycle of 19 years; and this was the
so-called 'Great Year,' or 'Year of Meton.'"
_E. Curtius,
History of Greece,
book 3, chapter 3 (volume 2)._
METRETES, The.
See EPHAH.