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οἰκία

oikia · ἡ

building, house, dwelling

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What it meant

οἰκί-α · oiki-a — LSJ

building, house, dwelling, home, home, house, set of apartments, room

building, house, dwelling, Hdt. 1.17, 114, etc. ; ἡ οἰκία ἡ δημοσία IG 1(2).94.36 ; οἰκία ἱερά ib. 363.24; κατʼ οἰκίαν at home, Pl. La. 180d ; ἰδίᾳ καὶ κατʼ οἰκίας Id. Lg. 788a ; ἔτυχεν ἐπὶ τῆς οἰ. was at home, X.Eph. 5.4 : in Com. and Attic Prose much more freq. than οἶκος : sts. opp. οἶκος as house to set of apartments or room, τᾶν οἰκιᾶν τιμὰν κομιζέσθω τῶ οἴκω ἑκάστω δύο μνᾶς SIG 306.16 (Tegea, iv B. C.), cf. PTeb. 46.9 (cf. 18) (ii B. C.), 38.14, 15 (ii B. C.), PFay. 31.11 (ii A. D.).

2 property, estate, dwelling-house

in Att. law, οἶκος was distd. from οἰκία, the former being the property left at a personʼs death, his estate, the latter the dwelling-house only, as stated by X. Oec. 1.5, cf. Hdt. 7.224, Jul. Gal.Fr. 12, etc.

3 oneʼs own apartments, those let out to lodgers

distd. from συνοικία, as oneʼs own apartments from those let out to lodgers, Aeschin. 1.124.

II household, domestic establishment, establishments, house

household, domestic establishment, Pl. Grg. 520e ; δύʼ οἰκίας ᾤκει, i. e. he kept two establishments, D. 39.26, cf. Arist. Pol. 1265b26 ; more primitive than the πόλις, ib. 1252b17, EN 1162a18, al. ; ὁ ἐπὶ τῆς οἰκίας the house-steward, PCair.Zen. 150.16 (iii B. C.).

III the household, inmates of the house

the household, i.e. inmates of the house, Pl. Lg. 909b (pl.).

IV house, family from which one is descended

house or family from which one is descended, οἰκίης ἀγαθῆς Hdt. 1.107 ; οἰκίης οὐ φλαυροτέρης ib. 99 ; οἰκίης οὐκ ἐπιφανέος Id. 2.172 ; τῇ Κύρου οἰκίῃ συγγενέες Id. 3.2, cf. Pl. Grg. 472b ; ἐκ τῶν μεγίστων οἰ. Eup. 117.5, cf. And. 1.126, Th. 8.6, etc. ; περὶ ὀλίγας οἰ. αἱ . . τραγῳδίαι συντίθενται Arist. Po. 1453a19 ; ἡ Μακεδόνων οἰ. Plb. 2.37.7 ; ἡ βασιλικὴ οἰ. D.S. 18.57.

V school

medical school, ἐξ οἰκίας Ἡροφίλου Erot. Praef., cf. Gal. 17(2).145.

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