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οἴκοθεν

oikothen

from oneʼs house, from home

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Where it lives

  • Trojan Women 3 · 4.24/10k
  • Ajax 2 · 2.54/10k
  • Ion 1 · 2.49/10k
  • Hippias Minor 1 · 2.3/10k
  • Iphigenia in Aulis 2 · 2.24/10k
  • Suppliant Maidens 1 · 2.07/10k
  • Suppliants 1 · 1.42/10k
  • Hellenica 8 · 1.22/10k
  • Epistles 2 · 1.18/10k
  • Hippias Major 1 · 1.18/10k
  • Apology 1 · 1.14/10k
  • Phoenissae 1 · 1.04/10k

Densest 12 of 26 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

οἴκοθεν · oikothen — LSJ

from oneʼs house, from home, from home, domestic affairs, at home, within

from oneʼs house, from home, ὃ οἴ. ἦγʼ ὁ γεραιός Il. 11.632 ; οἴ. ὥρμησαν Th. 4.90 ; οἴ. οἴκαδε from home to home, implying security and ease, Pi. O. 6.99, cf. 7.4, Lib. Ep. 149 ; οἴ. ἐκ Κλαζομενῶν Pl. Prm. 126a ; δεῦρο οἴ. Id. Hp. Ma. 282b ; εὐθὺς οἴ. ὑπάρχει παισὶν οὖσιν, i.e. from childhood, Arist. Pol. 1295b16 : freq. without any sense of motion, νόμοι οἱ οἴ., = οἱ πάτριοι, A. Supp. 390, cf. E. Ph. 294 (lyr.) ; οἱ οἴ. φίλοι Id. Med. 506 ; τὰ οἴ. domestic affairs, Id. IA 1000 ; τὸ οἴ. Pi. P.

2 from oneʼs household stores, own, by oneʼs own intellect, of my own, own

from oneʼs household stores, πάντʼ ἐθέλω δόμεναι καὶ οἴ. ἄλλʼ ἐπιθεῖναι Il. 7.364 ; οἴ. ἄλλο Εὐμήλῳ ἐπιδοῦναι 23.558 ; εἰ καί νύ κεν οἴ. ἄλλο μεῖζον ἐπαιτήσειας ib. 592 : metaph., τὸν νοῦν διδάσκαλον οἴ. ἔχουσα χρηστόν having in my own mind a wise teacher, E. Tr. 653 ; δεῖ μάντιν εἶναι, μὴ μαθοῦσαν οἴ. one must needs be externally inspired with the vision of truth, if one has not learned it by oneʼs own intellect, Id. Med. 239 ; πόθεν ἂν λάβοιμι ῥῆμα . .; οὐ γὰρ εἶχον οἴ. I have it not of my own

3 from oneʼs own financial resources, at oneʼs own expense

from oneʼs own financial resources, at oneʼs own expense (cf. ϝοίκω), PEleph. 11.7 (iii B.C.), Wilcken Chr. 176.17 (i A. D.), etc. ; τὰς πολιτείας οἴ. ἐνδόξως ἐκτελεῖν IG 4.672 (Nauplia), cf. 716 (Hermione) ; ἀγωνοθετεῖν Παναθηναίων οἴ. SIG 869.7 (ii A. D.) ; παρεχέτω οἴ. τὸ θερμόλυχνον ib. 1109.151 (ii A. D.).

4 to begin with, originally, to begin with, already

like ἀρχῆθεν, to begin with, originally, ψευδεῖς οἴ. δόξας ἔχοντες entertaining false notions to begin with, Aeschin. 3.59, cf. 60 ; εἰς ὑπέρχρεων οὐσίαν καὶ οἴ. into an estate already overburdened with debt, Is. 10.17.

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