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|Definition=ὁ,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[house]], not only of [[built]] [[house]]s, but of any [[dwelling place]], as that of [[Achilles]] at [[Troy]] (v. [[κλισία]]), Il.24.471,572, cf. [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Ajax|Aj.]]''65; of the Cyclops' [[cave]], Od.9.478; of a [[tent]], [[LXX]] ''Ge.''31.33; [[οἶκον ἱκάνεται]] = is coming [[home]], Od.23.7; εἰς or ἐς οἶκον A.''Eu.''459, S.''Ph.''240; πρὸς οἶκον A.''Ag.''867, [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Oedipus Tyrannus|OT]]''1491, etc.; κατ' οἶκον Id.''El.''929, etc.; κατ' οἶκον ἐν δόμοις Id.''Tr.''689; [[οἱ κατ' οἶκον]] ib.934; αἱ κατ' οἶκον κακοπραγίαι Th.2.60; τἂν οἴκῳ A.''Ch.''579; ἐν οἴκῳ καθεύδειν Antipho 2.1.4,8; οἱ ἐν οἴκῳ ''PCair.Zen.''93.10 (iii B.C.); [[ἐξ οἴκου ἀποδημεῖν]] ib.44.23 (iii B.C.); [[ἐπ' οἴκου ἀποχωρῆσαι]], [[go homewards]], Th.1.87, cf. 30, 108,2.31, etc.; [[ἀπ' οἴκου]] = [[from home]], Id.1.99, etc.; cf. [[οἰκία]].<br><span class="bld">b</span> freq. omitted after εἰς or [[ἐν]], v. [[εἰς]] 1.4c, [[ἐν]] A.1.2.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[room]], [[chamber]], Od.1.356, 19.514,598; οἶ. θερμός Dsc.2.164; [[dining hall]], ἑπτάκλινος οἶ. Phryn. Com.66, X.''Smp.''2.18; [[room]] in a [[temple]], ''IG''42(1).110''A''27, al.(Epid., pl.): pl. [[οἶκοι]] freq., = [[a single house]], Od.24.417, [[Aeschylus|A.]]''[[The Persians|Pers.]]''230,524, etc.; [[κλαυθμῶν τῶν ἐξ οἴκων]] [[domestic]] [[grief]]s, Id.''Ag.''1554 (anap.); ἀπ' οἴκων [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Ajax|Aj.]]''762; [[ἐς οἴκους]] or [[πρὸς οἴκους]], Id.''Ph.''311,383; [[κατ' οἴκους]] = [[at home]], [[within]], [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]3.79, [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Ajax|Aj.]]''65, Mnesim.4.52.<br><span class="bld">3</span> of public buildings, [[meeting house]], [[hall]], οἶ. Κηρύκων ''IG''22.1672.24; [[Δεκελειῶν]] ib. 1237.33; of treasuries at Delos, ''JHS''25.310, al., cf. [[Hesychius Lexicographus|Hsch.]] [[sub verbo|s.v.]] [[θησαυρός]]; [[ἐγκριτήριοι οἶκοι]], v. [[ἐγκριτήριος]]; [[temple]], IG 4.1580 (Aegina), [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]8.143, E.''Ph.''1373, Ar.''Nu.''600; οἶ. τεμένιος ἱερός ''SIG''987.3, cf. 25 (Chios, iv B.C.); ἐν τῷ οἴ. τοῦ Ἄμμωνος ''UPZ''79.4 (ii B.C.); ὁ οἶ. [τοῦ θεοῦ] ''Ev.Matt.''21.13, al.; of a funerary monument, ''BCH''2.610 (Cibyra), 18.11 (Magnesia); [[ἀΐδιος|ἀΐδιοι]] οἴκοι., i.e. [[tomb]]s, D.S.1.51.<br><span class="bld">4</span> [[cage]] for birds, Id.13.82 (s.v.l., [[οἰκίσκῳ]] Valck.); [[beehive]], Gp.15.2.22.<br><span class="bld">5</span> Astrol., [[domicile]] of a planet, ''PLond.''1.98r.12, al.(i/ii A.D.), Ael.''NA''12.7, Vett.Val.7.25, Man.2.141, Eust.162.2.<br><span class="bld">II</span> one's [[household]] [[goods]], [[substance]] (cf. [[οἴκοθεν]] 2), οἶ. ἐμὸς διόλωλε Od.2.64; ἐσθίεταί μοι οἶ. 4.318; καὶ οἶ. καὶ κλῆρος ἀκήρατος Il.15.498; οἶκον δέ κ' ἐγὼ καὶ κτήματα δοίην Od.7.314, cf. [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]3.53, 7.224, etc.: in Att. law, [[estate]], [[inheritance]], οἶκον κατασχεῖν τινος And.4.15, cf. Lys.12.93, Is.5.15, D.27.4, etc.; οἶ. πέντε ταλάντων Is.7.42; cf. [[οἰκία]].<br><span class="bld">III</span> a reigning [[house]], οἶ. ὁ βασιλέος [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]5.31, cf.6.9, Th. 1.137, Isoc.3.41; Ἀγαμεμνονίων οἴκων ὄλεθρον A.''Ch.''862 (anap.), cf. S.''Ant.''594(lyr.); also of any [[family]], Is.10.4, [[LXX]] ''Ge.''7.1, D.H.1.85; [[οἶκος Σεβαστός]], = [[domus Augusta]], Ph.2.520; οὐδενὸς οἴκου δεύτερον γενόμενον ''IG''42(1).84.32 (Epid., i A.D.); τοὺς πρώτους τᾶς πόλιος οἴκους ib.86.15(ibid., i A.D.). (Orig. [[ϝοῖκος]], cf. [[ϝοίκω]], [[οἰκία]]: cf. Skt. veśás, viś- '[[house]]', Lat. [[vicus]], [[vicinus]], etc.)