οἰκέτης

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Έγ', ὦ ταλαίπωρ', αὐτὸς ὧν χρείᾳ πάρει. Τὰ πολλὰ γάρ τοι ῥήματ' ἢ τέρψαντά τι, ἢ δυσχεράναντ', ἢ κατοικτίσαντά πως, παρέσχε φωνὴν τοῖς ἀφωνήτοις τινά –> Wretched brother, tell him what you need. A multitude of words can be pleasurable, burdensome, or they can arouse pity somehow — they give a kind of voice to the voiceless.

Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, 1280-4
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Transliteration A: oikétēs Transliteration B: oiketēs Transliteration C: oiketis Beta Code: oi)ke/ths

English (LSJ)

ου, ὁ

   A, (οἶκος) household slave, A.Ch.737, Hdt.6.137, 7.170, Antipho 1.30, Th.2.4 ; δημόσιος οἰ. τῆς πόλεως Aeschin.1.54.    2 οἱ οἰκέται also, = οἰκετεία, household, A.Ag.732 (lyr.), Hdt.8.4, 106,142, S.Tr.908, X.Cyr.4.2.2 : hence opp. δοῦλοι, Pl.Lg.763a, 777a, 853e ; διαφέρειν φησὶ Χρύσιππος δοῦλον οἰκέτου, διὰ τὸ τοὺς ἀπελευθέρους μὲν δούλους ἔτι εἶναι, οἰκέτας δὲ τοὺς μὴ τῆς κτήσεως ἀφειμένους Stoic.3.86 : but freq. synon. with δοῦλος, Arist.Pol.1252b12, al., PLille 29.2 (iii B. C.), IG5(1).1390.77 (Andania, i B. C.) ; δοῦλος μεῖζον οἰκέτου φρονῶν Men. 796.    II as epith. of Apollo, ἱερέως . . Καρνείου Βοικέτα [Β = ϝ] IG5(1).497, cf. 589,608 (Sparta). (Cf. οἰκότης.)