Anc. Gr. Hist. [ad. Gr. συμμορία, f. σύμμορος adj. sharing (sc. the burden of taxation), f. σύν SYM- + μορ- (: μέρος portion, share).] Each of the companies or fellowships, graded according to wealth, into which the citizens of Athens and other cities were divided for purposes of taxation.
[1835. T. Mitchell, Acharn. of Aristoph., 453, note. Property taxes are often mentioned in connexion with the resident aliens. This class of settlers, composed distinct symmoriæ (μετοικικαι συμμορίαι), which had treasurers of their own; and a fixed contribution was settled for each one.]
1847. Grote, Greece, II. xiii. III. 247. The territory of the town was distributed amongst a certain number of towers, to each of which corresponded a symmory or section of the citizens having its common altar and sacred rites.
1891. Athenæum, 25 July, 128/1. The proposition of Demosthenes was that 2,000 citizens should be placed in the symmories.
