οἰκία: Difference between revisions

|Definition=Ion. [[οἰκίη]], Cret. and Locr. [[ϝοικία]], ''Leg.Gort.''5.26, ''Berl.Sitzb.'' 1927.8 (v B. C.), cf. ''IG''14.636 (Petelia):—ἡ,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[building]], [[house]], [[dwelling]], [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]1.17,114, etc.; ἡ οἰκία ἡ δημοσία ''IG''12.94.36; <b class="b3">οἰκία ἱερά</b> ib.363.24; [[κατ' οἰκίαν]] = at [[home]], Pl.''La.''180d; ἰδίᾳ καὶ κατ' οἰκίας Id.''Lg.'' 788a; <b class="b3">ἔτυχεν ἐπὶ τῆς οἰκίας</b> was at [[home]], X.Eph.5.4: in Com. and Attic Prose much more freq. than [[οἶκος]]: sometimes opp. [[οἶκος]] as [[house]] to [[set]] of [[apartment]]s 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.).<br><span class="bld">2</span> in Att. law, [[οἶκος]] was distinguished from [[οἰκία]], the former being the [[property]] left at a person's death, his [[estate]], the latter the [[dwelling-house]] only, as stated by X.''Oec.''1.5, cf. [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]7.224, Jul.''Gal.Fr.''12, etc.<br><span class="bld">3</span> distinguished from [[συνοικία]], as one's own [[apartment]]s from those [[let out]] to [[lodger]]s, Aeschin.1.124.<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[household]], [[domestic]] [[establishment]], [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Gorgias|Grg.]]'' 520e; <b class="b3">δὔ οἰκίας ᾤκει</b>, i.e. he kept two [[establishment]]s, D.39.26, cf. Arist.''Pol.''1265b26; more primitive than the [[πόλις]], ib.1252b17, ''EN''1162a18, al.; <b class="b3">ὁ ἐπὶ τῆς οἰκίας</b> the [[house]]-[[steward]], ''PCair.Zen.''150.16 (iii B. C.).<br><span class="bld">III</span> the [[household]], i.e. [[inmate]]s of the [[house]], [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Leges|Lg.]]''909b (pl.).<br><span class="bld">IV</span> [[house]] or [[family]] from which one is [[descend]]ed, οἰκίης ἀγαθῆς [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]1.107; <b class="b3">οἰκίης οὐ φλαυροτέρης</b> ib.99; οἰκίης οὐκ ἐπιφανέος Id.2.172; τῇ Κύρου οἰκίῃ συγγενέες Id.3.2, cf. [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Gorgias|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 οἰκία [[Diodorus Siculus|D.S.]] 18.57.<br><span class="bld">V</span> medical [[school]], ἐξ οἰκίας Ἡροφίλου Erot.''Praef.'', cf. Gal. 17(2).145.