This is not the case--well,

这和Apoikia不是一回事
before the British gave Hong Kong back,

例如英国归还香港之前
Hong Kong was a crown colony, it was British territory.

香港是英国的殖民地是它的领土
It was ruled by Britain and so on.

它被英国统治等等
No, this is not what an apoikia is.

希腊语Apoikia不同于殖民地一词
From the first, Syracuse is an independent polis, autonomous, self-

首先锡拉库萨是一个独立自治的城邦
whatever regime it wants, etc.

如可以独立地决定政体
It is not a subject of anybody, not Corinth or anybody else.

它不是科林斯或任何人的臣民
That's not the end of the story. The question really is,

这不是重点真正的问题是
so now we know that, what kind of relations did they have?

它们之间的关系到底是什么
I would say there are three categories that they fall into.

我觉得它们之间的关系共分三种
The most typical, the usual, everything else is an exception

最典型普遍且最没有悬念的