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ἰδῐωτ-εύω

idioteuo

occupy a private station

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Where it lives

Hiero 1 · 1.68/10k
Apology 1 · 1.14/10k
Gorgias 2 · 0.76/10k
Statesman 1 · 0.59/10k
Protagoras 1 · 0.56/10k
Politics 2 · 0.31/10k
Discourses 1 · 0.13/10k
Cyropaedia 1 · 0.13/10k
Republic 1 · 0.11/10k

What it meant — LSJ

occupy a private station, to be of no consideration

occupy a private station, opp. δημοσιεύω, Pl. Ap. 32a, R. 579c; opp. ἄρχω, X. Hier. 8.5; opp. τυραννεύω, Isoc. 2.4; opp. πολιτεύεσθαι, Aeschin. 1.195; of a country, to be of no consideration, X. Cyr. 8.7.7.

II practise privately

practise privately, of a physician, opp. ὁ δημοσιεύων, Pl. Plt. 259a, cf. Grg. 514esq.

III to be unpractised, unskilled in

c. gen. rei, τῆς ἀρετῆς ἰ. to be unpractised, unskilled in . . , Id. Prt. 327a.

IV to be vulgar

in Lit. Crit., to be vulgar, of expressions, Longin. 31.2.

In the wild

ἰδιωτεύοντες · idiōteuontes Aristotle, Politics 1273a (DIORISIS sentence 815)
ἰδιωτεύοντες · idiōteuontes Aristotle, Politics 1273b (DIORISIS sentence 837)
ἰδιωτεύειν · idiōteuein Epictetus, Discourses 2.16 (DIORISIS sentence 2864)
ἰδιωτεύειν · idiōteuein Plato, Apology 31
ἰδιωτεύοντας · idiōteuontas Plato, Gorgias 514
ἰδιωτεύοντος · idiōteuontos Plato, Gorgias 515

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