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οἰκονομ-ικός

oikonomikos

practised in the management of a household

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What it meant

οἰκονομ-ικός · oikonom-ikos — LSJ

practised in the management of a household, family, thrifty, frugal, economical, on the duties of domestic life, on public finance, economy, husbandry, patriarchal rule, in a well ordered manner

practised in the management of a household or family, opp. πολιτικός, Pl. Alc. 1.133e, Phdr. 248d, X. Oec. 1.3, Arist. Pol. 1252a8, etc. : Sup., [κτημάτων] τὸ βέλτιστον καὶ -ώτατον, of man, Phld. Oec. p.30 J. : hence, thrifty, frugal, economical, X. Mem. 4.2.39, Phylarch. 65 J. (Comp.) : ὁ οἰ. title of treatise on the duties of domestic life, by Xenophon ; and τὰ οἰ. title of treatise on public finance, ascribed to Aristotle, cf. X. Cyr. 8.1.14 : ἡ -κή (sc. τέχνη) domestic economy, husbandry, Pl

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