Perioeci

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Related to Periokoi: Helots, Gerousia, ephors, Messenians, Alcmaeonids

Per`i`oe´ci


n. pl. 1. Those who live on the same parallel of latitude but on opposite meridians, so that it is noon in one place when it is midnight in the other. Compare Antœci.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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