οἰκουμένη: Difference between revisions

|Definition=(''[[sc.]]'' [[γῆ]]), ἡ,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[inhabited region]], v. [[οἰκέω]] A. 1; then [[the Greek world]], opp. [[barbarian lands]], D.7.35; πᾶσα ἡ οἰκουμένη Id.18.48; in [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Meteorologica|Mete.]]''362b26, ἡ [[οἰκουμένη]] = [[the inhabited world]] (including non-Greek lands, as [[Ethiopia]], [[India]], [[Scythia]]), as opp. [[possibly uninhabited regions]], cf. Cleom.2.1; in Arist.''Mu.''392b26, <b class="b3">ἥδε ἡ οἰκουμένη</b>, = our [[world]] (= [[Asia]], [[Libya]], [[Europe]]); [[οἰκουμέναι]] [[worlds]], ib.31; ἡ φιλία περιχορεύει τὴν οἰκουμένην Epicur.''Sent.Vat.''52; [[σοῦ]] (i.e. [[Ptolemy]] ''ΙΙ'' or ''III'') τῆς οἰ. πάσης βασιλεύοντος ''PSI''5.541.7, cf. [[LXX]] ''1 Es.''2.3; loosely, [[the whole world]], Hyp.''Eux.''33 (prob.), Antiph.179, ''PMag.Lond.''121.704, Luc. ''Halc.''3, Ath.8.350a: so perhaps in some passages cited under ''ΙΙ''.<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[the Roman world]], ὁ ἀγαθὸς [[δαίμων]] (etc.) <b class="b3">τῆς οἰκουμένης</b>, i.e. the [[emperor|Emperor]], ''OGI''666.4,668.5, ''[[Oxyrhynchus Papyri|POxy.]]''1021.5 (i A.D.), ''CIG''2581-2,4416,''Ev.Luc.''2.1, ''Act.Ap.''17.6, 24.5, ''Sammelb.''176.2 (ii A.D.), Gal.10.7, Luc.''Macr.'' 7.<br><span class="bld">III</span> [[ἡ οἰκουμένη ἡ μέλλουσα]] = [[the world to come]], i.e. [[the kingdom of Christ]], ''Ep.Hebr.''2.5.