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  • noun Plural form of perioecus.

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Examples

  • The Athenians, proceeding on their voyage, ravaged the territory of Pheia in Elis for two days, and defeated three hundred chosen men from the vale of Elis, as well as some Elean perioeci from the neighbourhood of Pheia who came to the rescue.

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

  • These further resolutions being also passed, the Lacedaemonians despatched Eudamidas, accompanied by a body of neodamodes, with perioeci and Sciritae,438 to the number of two thousand odd.

    Hellenica 2007

  • From Tegea he despatched some of the knights right and left to vist the perioeci and hasten their mobilisation, and at the same time sent commanders of foreign brigades to the allied cities on a similar errand.

    Hellenica 2007

  • Eudamidas, accompanied by a body of neodamodes, with perioeci and

    Hellenica 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874

  • From Tegea he despatched some of the knights right and left to visit the perioeci and hasten their mobilisation, and at the same time sent commanders of foreign brigades to the allied cities on a similar errand.

    Hellenica 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874

  • They further got a fifty-oared galley from the Trapezuntines, and gave the command of it to Dexippus, a Laconian, one of the perioeci (1).

    Anabasis 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874

  • _Plebeians_, who were free, but, like the _perioeci_ and

    Outline of Universal History George Park Fisher 1868

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  • People living on the same parallel of latitude but on opposite meridians such that midnight for one is noon for the other. Singular: perioecus.

    May 26, 2009

  • Almost invariably used, however, in the original historical sense: inhabitants of subordinate towns around Sparta (or elsewhere in Greece).

    May 26, 2009