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Metiochus

Μητίοχος

(Μητίοχος), an Athenian orator, a contemporary and friend of Pericles, for whom he often spoke in the assembly at Athens. (Plut. Praecept. Pol. 15; Bekker, Anecdot. p. 309 Schömann, De Sortit. Jud. p. 40, &c.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.