οἰκία: Difference between revisions

|Definition=Ion. οἰκίη, Cret. and Locr. ϝοικία, <span class="title">Leg.Gort.</span>5.26, <span class="title">Berl.Sitzb.</span> 1927.8 (v B. C.), cf. <span class="title">IG</span>14.636 (Petelia) :—ἡ, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">building, house, dwelling</b>, <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.17</span>,<span class="bibl">114</span>, etc. ; ἡ οἰκία ἡ δημοσία <span class="title">IG</span>12.94.36 ; <b class="b3">οἰκία ἱερά</b> ib.363.24; <b class="b3">κατ' οἰκίαν</b> at [[home]], <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">La.</span>180d</span> ; ἰδίᾳ καὶ κατ' οἰκίας <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Lg.</span> 788a</span> ; <b class="b3">ἔτυχεν ἐπὶ τῆς οἰ</b>. was at [[home]], <span class="bibl">X.Eph.5.4</span> : in Com. and Attic Prose much more freq. than <b class="b3">οἶκος</b> : sts. opp. <b class="b3">οἶκος</b> as [[house]] to <b class="b2">set of apartments</b> or [[room]], τᾶν οἰκιᾶν τιμὰν κομιζέσθω τῶ οἴκω ἑκάστω δύο μνᾶς <span class="title">SIG</span>306.16 (Tegea, iv B. C.), cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PTeb.</span>46.9</span> (cf. <span class="bibl">18</span>) (ii B. C.), <span class="bibl">38.14</span>, <span class="bibl">15</span> (ii B. C.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PFay.</span>31.11</span> (ii A. D.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> in Att. law, <b class="b3">οἶκος</b> was distd. from <b class="b3">οἰκία</b>, the former being the [[property]] left at a person's death, his [[estate]], the latter the <b class="b2">dwelling-house</b> only, as stated by <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Oec.</span>1.5</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Hdt.7.224</span>, Jul.<span class="title">Gal.Fr.</span>12, etc. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> distd. from <b class="b3">συνοικία</b>, as <b class="b2">one's own apartments</b> from <b class="b2">those let out to lodgers</b>, <span class="bibl">Aeschin.1.124</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> <b class="b2">household, domestic establishment</b>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Grg.</span>520e</span> ; <b class="b3">δὔ οἰκίας ᾤκει</b>, i. e. he kept two [[establishments]], <span class="bibl">D.39.26</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Pol.</span>1265b26</span> ; more primitive than the <b class="b3">πόλις</b>, ib.<span class="bibl">1252b17</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">EN</span>1162a18</span>, al. ; <b class="b3">ὁ ἐπὶ τῆς οἰκίας</b> the [[house]]-steward, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PCair.Zen.</span>150.16</span> (iii B. C.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">III</span> <b class="b2">the household</b>, i. e. <b class="b2">inmates of the house</b>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>909b</span> (pl.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">IV</span> [[house]] or <b class="b2">family from which one is descended</b>, οἰκίης ἀγαθῆς <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.107</span> ; <b class="b3">οἰκίης οὐ φλαυροτέρης</b> ib.<span class="bibl">99</span> ; οἰκίης οὐκ ἐπιφανέος <span class="bibl">Id.2.172</span> ; τῇ Κύρου οἰκίῃ συγγενέες <span class="bibl">Id.3.2</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Grg.</span>472b</span> ; ἐκ τῶν μεγίστων οἰ. <span class="bibl">Eup.117.5</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">And.1.126</span>, <span class="bibl">Th.8.6</span>, etc. ; περὶ ὀλίγας οἰ. αἱ… τραγῳδίαι συντίθενται <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Po.</span>1453a19</span> ; ἡ Μακεδόνων οἰ. <span class="bibl">Plb.2.37.7</span> ; ἡ βασιλικὴ οἰ. <span class="bibl">D.S. 18.57</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">V</span> medical [[school]], ἐξ οἰκίας Ἡροφίλου Erot.<span class="title">Praef.</span>, cf. Gal. 17(2).145.</span>