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"><span class="bld">A</span> [[building]], [[house]], [[dwelling]], <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; [[κατ' οἰκίαν]] = 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 οἰκίας</b> was at [[home]], <span class="bibl">X.Eph.5.4</span> : in Com. and Attic Prose much more freq. than [[οἶκος]] : sts. opp. [[οἶκος]] as [[house]] to [[set]] of [[apartment]]s 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"><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 <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"><span class="bld">3</span> distinguished from [[συνοικία]], as one's own [[apartment]]s from those [[let out]] to [[lodger]]s, <span class="bibl">Aeschin.1.124</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> [[household]], [[domestic]] [[establishment]], <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Grg.</span>520e</span>; <b class="b3">δὔ οἰκίας ᾤκει</b>, i. e. he kept two [[establishment]]s, <span class="bibl">D.39.26</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Pol.</span>1265b26</span>; more primitive than the [[πόλις]], 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"><span class="bld">III</span> the [[household]], i. e. [[inmate]]s of the [[house]], <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>909b</span> (pl.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">IV</span> [[house]] or [[family]] from which one is [[descend]]ed, 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 οἰκία <span class="bibl">D.S. 18.57</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">V</span> medical [[school]], ἐξ οἰκίας Ἡροφίλου Erot.<span class="title">Praef.</span>, cf. Gal. 17(2).145.</span>