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Deme   Listen
noun
Deme  n.  
1.
(Gr. Antiq.) A territorial subdivision of Attica (also of modern Greece), corresponding to a township.
2.
(Biol.) An undifferentiated aggregate of cells or plastids.





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"Deme" Quotes from Famous Books



... young Athenian's days of study will usually come to a close. At that age he will be given a simple festival by his father and be formally enrolled in his paternal deme.[*] His hair, which has hitherto grown down toward his shoulders, will be clipped short. He will allow his beard to grow. At the temple of Aglaurus he will (with the other youths of his age) take solemn oath of loyalty to Athens and her laws. For the next year he will serve as ...
— A Day In Old Athens • William Stearns Davis
... proper season. This last passage, however, is the strongest authority for a change of place in the action. Certainly, if the reading is correct, in the light of all the remainder of the comedy we should naturally translate: "in the sixth year, having come into my deme, I salute you gladly." But we do no violence to the construction if we say that [Greek: elth es ton demon] means "going (forth) to my deme." Unquestionably up to the end of the first choral ode at v. 236, the action has gone on in Athens. But here, we are ...
— The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 • Various


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