Daxos from Arcadia, who is not a perioikoi As I've mentioned, I am the King of Rabbit Holes, and following them down. I enjoy digging into unfamiliar terms like hoplites and triremes. I ran across two terms in this week's reading in Thucydides that I hadn't noticed before in section 4.8: perioikoi and stades. I later realized one of those terms had occurred previously in the text without my noticing, and the other term was lost in translation. Perioikoi The perioikoi (Greek: