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How to use deme in a sentence

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The Peloponnesian army under King Archidamus reached the borders of Attica and encamped at the deme of Acharnae.
For convenience, we henceforth drop the superscripts and subscripts indicating deme identities.
If some or all of the samples come from the same deme, the PRF results must be corrected for the effect of drift and migration within demes.
Historically, migration can take ancestors to any deme within the population.
A single population may include more than one deme and demes may be partially isolated from one another.
Two portraits of Socrates frame the Symposium, one painted by Aristodemus, the good thief, the best of the deme, the other by Alcibiades, the bad thief.
So in the summer of 431, a Spartan army invaded Attica, laying waste to Acharnai, a rural deme to the north-west of Athens, within sight of the city walls.
We have studied different aspects of DNA sequence polymorphism within a single deme drawn from a population that has experienced a range expansion.
The word deme refers to an endogamous local population that does not have unilineal descent.
Thus, a deme is a local endogamous community without internal segmentation into clans.
Deme came later to mean a local breeding population, despite the best attempts of its coiner.
Examples from Classical Literature
The person voted and was taxed in his deme, and he was called into the military service from his deme.
But the government of the ward did not possess the solid attributes of that of the Attic deme.
Aristophanes was an Athenian citizen of the tribe Pandionis, and the deme Cydathene.
To try to insert an alien child in a deme was a civil, in a was a religious offence.
To be a citizen of the state it was necessary to be a citizen of a deme.
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