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πάροικος , ον,
A.dwelling beside or near, neighbouring, c. gen., “Κάδμου πάροικοι . . δόμων” S.Ant.1155 ; [“πόλεισ]π.Ρῃκίων ἐπαύλων” A.Pers.869 (lyr.) : c. dat., ποταμῷ παροίκους Ἅλυϊ Diog.Trag.1.7, cf. Th.3.113 : abs., “ἡ π. πηλαμύς” S.Fr.503 ; neighbour, οὐκ ἀσίνης π. Sapph.80; Ἀττικὸς π., prov. of a restless neighbour, Arist.Rh. 1395a18, Duris 96J.
2. π. πόλεμος war with neighbours, Hdt.7.235.
II. foreign, alien, LXXGe.15.13, al. ; “σπέρμα π. ἐν γῇ ἀλλοτρίᾳ” Act.Ap. 7.6 : as Subst., sojourner in another's house, D.L.1.82 : generally, alien, stranger, LXX Le.22.10 : in later Greek, = μέτοικος, SIG398.37 (Cos, iii B. C.), IG7.2712.64 (Acraeph.), OGI1338.12,20, al.(Pergam., ii B. C.), etc.; = colonus, Cod.Just. 1.34.1 (pl.).
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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