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   From: nospam@de-ster.demon.nl   
      
   occam  wrote:   
      
   > On 19/09/2024 06:59, Aidan Kehoe wrote:   
   > > Another one that stuck for me was "metic", "resident foreigner in a   
   > > Greek city state," apparently not related to meticulous.   
   >   
   > Try 'hermetic' as a related concept. A 'foreigner' in ancient Greek was   
   > someone from another city state, even if that was a city in Greece.   
   > 'Greece' did not become an entity until much later.   
      
   Depends on what you want 'entity' to mean.   
   Those ancient Greeks certainly saw themselves as a cultural entity,   
   with a shared language and culture. This extended to 'Greater Greece'.   
   It was only the narrow sense of a political entity that was   
   inconceivable to them,   
      
   Jan   
      
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