(not to be confused with Métis) In ancient Greece, the term metic meant resident alien, a person who didn't have citizen rights in their Greek city-state (polis) of residence. actual tombstome the young women and the older males were the first 2 groups of people whom recived an actual tombstone in the city-state of sparta Metic comes from the Greek μέτοικος, metoikos, where the second element's derived from οἶκος, oikos, "h… (More on Metics)