Anacharsis was the first foreigner (metic) who received the privileges of Athenian citizenship. Athens' most important banker, after his manumission to the metic class. The status divide between metic and citizen was not always clear. In the street no physical signs distinguished citizen from metic or slave. The owner could also be a male or female metic. A metic without a sponsor was vulnerable to a special prosecution. As a metic, he was unable to take part in the debates. The limiting constant-scalar-curvature metic is typically no longer a Yamabe minimizer in this context. Many early bankers in Greek city-states belonged to the metic classification of citizenship. However, metic status did not exist during the time of Solon. Due to these complications, the legal term metic is most closely associated with Classical Athens.