"metœci" meaning in English

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          "text": "The families therefore of the 21,000 citizens amounted to 86,420 souls, and the totality of the metœci may be computed nearly in the same proportion ; for although the exclusion of all males below twenty is not applicable to a computation of the metœci, a deduction of the aged would be necessary, if the 10,000 metœci were those capable of bearing arms."
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