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1. boule, n.3 View full entry 1846
...A legislative council of ancient Greece, originally aristocratic and consisting of the heads of families, later consisting of representatives chosen by lot....
2. choregy, n. View full entry 1847
...The function of a choragus in ancient Athens....
3. class system, n. View full entry 1821
...Roman Hist. The system of dividing Roman property owners into classes for military service, according to wealth. Cf. class1....
4. cleruch, n. View full entry 1847
...At Athens, a citizen who received an allotment of land in a foreign country, but retained his rights as a citizen at home....
5. ˈcounter-penalty, n. View full entry 1847
...The penalty which an accused person who had been pronounced guilty suggested for himself in opposition to that which the accuser proposed....
6. ˈdecadarchy | dekadarchy, n. View full entry 1849
...A ruling body of ten. Cf. decarchy...
7. eponym, n. View full entry 1846
...One who gives, or is supposed to give, his name to a people, place, or institution; e.g. among the Greeks, the heroes who were looked upon as ancestors or founders...
8. gens, n. View full entry 1847
...Roman Hist. A clan or sept; a number of families united by the ties of a supposed common origin, a common name, and common religious rites....
9. hetaery, n. View full entry 1849
...An oligarchical club in ancient Athens for political and judicial purposes....
10. isoteles, n. View full entry 1850
...One of a favoured class of metœci or resident aliens at Athens, ‘who enjoyed all civic rights except those of a political nature’ (Liddell & Scott)....
11. Massaliot, n. and adj. View full entry 1856
...A native or inhabitant of Massalia (modern Marseilles), a Greek colony founded around 600 b.c. on the Mediterranean coast of southern France, and renowned for its stable oligarchic government....
12. Medism, n. View full entry 1849
...Sympathy with or support for the Medes or Persians (esp. by some Greeks during the Persian Wars of the 6th and 5th centuries b.c.); Medizing....
13. † Mix-Hellene, n. View full entry 1856
...A person of mixed Greek and non-Greek descent....
14. † naucrar, n. View full entry 1847
...A member of a naucrary; a householder in classical Greek Athens....
15. oecist, n. View full entry 1846
...The founder of a colony in ancient Greece. Hence allusively: the founder of a colony in more recent times....
16. † paedonom, n. View full entry a1871
...In ancient Greece: a magistrate who superintended the education of children....
17. perioecic, adj. View full entry 1846
...Outlying, peripheral; spec. of or relating to a perioecus (perioecus2)....
18. perioecid, adj. View full entry 1846
...= perioecic...
19. † phoenicize, v. View full entry 1846
...trans. To make Phoenician in language, nationality, etc....
20. phrator, n. View full entry 1847
...A member, esp. a fellow member, of a phratry (phratry1)....
