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ἴδιος [ῐδ], α, ον,
Attic dialect also ος, ον [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 349b, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 532b32 (see. entry near the end)] Refs 5th c.BC+]:
__I one's own, pertaining to oneself: hence,
__I.1 private, personal (opposed to κοινός): twice in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, πρῆξις δ᾽ ἥδ᾽ ἰδίη οὐ δήμιος] Refs 8th c.BC+] this business is private, not public, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.82; δήμιον ἦ ἴδιο; 4.314 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἴδιος ἐν κοινῷ σταλείς embarking as a private man in a public cause, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 13.49 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἰ. στόλῳ χρᾶσθαι, opposed to δημοσίῳ, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.63; γῆς.. νοσούσης ἴ. κινοῦντες κακά 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 636; κοινὸν ἐξ ἰδίας ἀνοίας κακόν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 641 (Lyric poetry), compare “Or.” 766 (troch.)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἴδια πράσσων ἢ στρατοῦ ταχθεὶς ὕπ; [[ [prev. author] “IA” 1363 (troch.); ἴ. κέρδεα 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.100; συμφορά 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 2.1.11; πρόσοδος 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 4.11; τὰ ἴ. διάφορα 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.37; πλοῦτος ἴ. καὶ δημόσιος [prev. author] 1.80, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 521a; ἴ. οὐ κοινὸς πόνος [prev. work] 535b, compare 543b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ξυμβόλαια[[ [prev. work] 443e; ἰ. ἢ πολιτικὴ πρᾶξις [prev. author] “Grg.” 484d; πόλεις καὶ ἴ. οἶκοι [prev. author] “Lg.” 890b, compare 796d ] Refs], etc.; τὰ ἱρά, opposed to τὰ ἴ., temples, opposed to private buildings, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.9, 8.109 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ ἐν ἰδίοις discussion among private persons, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 225b. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
Close Browse lexicon entries __I.2 one's own, opposed to ἀλλότριος, ἐπικώμια [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 6.32; ἡ ἰ. ἐλευθερίη 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.147; Ζεὺς ἰδίοις νόμοις κρατύνων 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 404 (Lyric poetry); ἰδίᾳ γνώμᾳ [prev. work] 543 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὔτοι τὰ χρήματ᾽ ἴ. κέκτηνται βροτοί [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 555 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; φίλων οὐδὲν ἴ., ={κοινὰ τὰ τῶν φίλων}, [[ [prev. author] “Andr.” 376: with _pronoun_, χωρίον ἡμέτερον ἴδιον 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 55.8. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__I.3 τὰ ἴ. private interests, opposed to public, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.82, 2.61, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; one's own property, [[ [prev. author] 1.141, etc.] Refs]; τὰ ἴ. πράττειν mind one's own business, in later Gr., [[ 2nd c.AD: Phrynichus Atticista 405, cf. NT.1Thes.4.11 ] NT+2nd c.AD+]; μένειν ἐπὶ τῶν ἰ. [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 2.57.5 ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; εἰς τὸ ἴ. καταθέσθαι for self, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.3.3, etc.: with _pronoun_, τοὐμὸν ἴ. εἰπεῖν] Refs 5th c.BC+] my personal opinion, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 6.8 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰ ἐμὰ ἴ. [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 50.66 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; τὰ αὑτοῦ ἴ. [[ 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 440 (uncertain reading), compare 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.61, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 8.127 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; τὰ ὑμέτερα ἴ. [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.307 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; τὰ ἴ. σφῶν αὐτῶν, τὰ ἴ. τὰ σφέτερα αὐτῶν, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 2.2, 3.36 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἔγωγε τοὐμὸν ἴ. I for my own part, [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Merc.Cond.” 9. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__I.4 of persons, personally attached to one, ἴδιοι Σελεύκου [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 21.6.4, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1315a36, “UPZ” 146.38 (2nd c.BC), 109.18 (1st c.BC)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἄνθρωπος ἴδιος τῇ εὐνοίᾳ τῇ πρὸς.. [[ “PCair.Zen.” 32 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; ταῖς εὐνοίαις ἴδιοι [[ 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 11.26 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]; ἴδιοι, οἱ, members of one's family, relatives, [[ “BGU” 665 ii 1 (1st c.AD), 2nd c.AD: Vettius Valens Astrologus 70.5, etc. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__I.5 ἡ ἰ. (sometimes with κώμη added, [[ “BGU” 15.13 (2nd c.AD))] Refs 2nd c.AD+], one's place of origin, [[ PTeb. 327.28 (2nd c.AD), etc.: _plural_, καταπορεύεσθαι εἰς τὰς ἰ.[prev. work]5.7 (2nd c.BC). ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__I.6 in later Gr., almost as a possessive pronoun,= ἑαυτοῦ, ἑαυτῶν, ἡ ἰ. φιλαγαθία [[ “IG” 22.1011.71 (2nd c.BC)] Refs 2nd c.BC+], etc.; χρῶνται ὡς ἰδίοις [[ “UPZ” 11.14 (2nd c.BC)] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; περὶ τῶν ἰ. βιβλίων, title of work by Galen.
__I.6.b ἴ. θάνατος one's own, i.e. a natural death, Ramsay Cities and Bishoprics[[ No. 133; ἰδίοις τελευτῶσι θανάτοις 2nd c.AD: Ptolemaeus Mathematicus “Tetrabiblos” 199; also ἰδία μοίρῃ Ramsay op.cit. No. 187. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II separate, distinct, ἔθνος ἴ. καὶ οὐδαμῶς Σκυθικόν [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.18, compare 22 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἴδιοί τινές σοι [θεοί]; [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 890; ἑκάστῳ τῶν ὀνομάτων ὑπόκειταί τις ἴδιος οὐσία 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 349b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πόλεις.. βαρβάρους καὶ ἰδίας Decrees cited in [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.183 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ὁ βάτραχος ἰδίαν ἔχει τὴν γλῶτταν, τὴν ἰ. ἀφίησι φωνήν, a peculiar kind of tongue,.. its peculiar note, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 536a8, 11: followed by ἤ, ἴδιον ἔπασχεν πάθος ἢ οἱ ἄλλοι] Refs 4th c.BC+] unique and different from others, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 481c; so ἴδιον παρὰ τὰ ἄλλα 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 6.4.10. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.b ἴ. λόγος, in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt, private account, δεδώκαμεν Πύρωνι τὸν ἔσχατόν σου ἴ. λόγον [[ “PCair.Zen.” 253 (3rd c.BC),compare “PGrenf.” 1.16 (2nd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+], etc.; later, special account, a branch of the fiscal administration, Wilcken [[ “Chr.” 162 (2nd c.BC), “PAmh.” 2.31 (2nd c.BC), “PGnom.Prooem.” (2nd c.AD)] Refs 2nd c.BC+], etc.; ὁ γνώμων τοῦ ἰ. λόγου [[ “OGI” 669.44 (1st c.AD)] Refs 1st c.AD+]; also as the title of the Controller, [[ 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 17.1.12 codices, “OGI” 408 (2nd c.AD), Mitteis “Chr.” 372 vi 1 (2nd c.AD). ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__II.2 strange, unusual, ἰδίοισιν ὑμεναίοισι κοὐχὶ σώφροσιν [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 558 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; peculiar, exceptional, περιττὸν καὶ ἴ. γένος [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Generatione Animalium” 760a5; τὰ περιττὰ καὶ ἴ. τῶν δένδρων 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 2.7.1 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; παράδοξον εἰπεῖν τι καὶ περιττὸν καὶ ἴ. [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.1068b] Refs 1st c.AD+]; eccentric, of persons, [[[prev. work]57e] Refs]; ἴ. τις ἐν πᾶσι βουλόμενος εἶναι [[ [prev. author] “Them.” 18. ] Refs]
__II.3 peculiar, appropriate, ἴδια ὀνόματα proper, specific words, opposed to περιέχοντα, class-names, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1407a31; ὄνομα ἴ. τινος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 580e; τὸ ἴ. τοῦ ἐπαίνου 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Pr.Im.” 19. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III ἴ. λόγοι ordinary private conversation, opposed to ποίησις, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 366e, compare “Euthd.” 305d; see infr. VI. 2b. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__IV τὸ ἴ. characteristic property of a species, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Topica” 102a18, 103b11, 3rd c.BC: Chrysippus Stoicus 2.75, 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 5.5.13 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; but also, distinguishing feature in a relative sense, ἴ. πρός τι [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Topica” 128b25. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__V regular comparative ἰδιώτερος [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 12.73, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 3.1.6 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: superlative -ώτατος[[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 23.65, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 1.14.2 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; also ἰδιαίτερος, -αίτατος, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 656a26, 658b33; -αίτατος but not -αίτερος _accusative_ to Thom.Mag. p.189R. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__VI adverb ἰδίως, peculiarly, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 5.108 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; severally, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 807b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: comparative ἰδιωτέρως [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 1.13.4; ὡς -ώτερον εἰπεῖν 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ οἰκονομίας” p.68 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus; ἰδιαίτερον 2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus 7.6.7: _superlative_ ἰδιώτατα (variant{-αίτατα}) 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 19.1 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἰδίως καλεῖσθαι to be called specifically, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Mundo” 394b28; -αίτατα λέγεσθαι [prev. author] “Mete.” 382a3 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἰδίως, opposed to κοινῶς, λέγεσθαι [[ 2nd c.BC: Demetrius Lacon Philosophus “Herc.” 1014.41 ] Refs 2nd c.BC+] F. (but in Grammars, to be used as a proper name, [[ 2nd c.BC: Dionysius Thrax Grammaticus 634.13)] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; in a peculiar sense or usage, [[ Scholia 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 115; ἰ.Αἰσχύλος τὸν Ἀγαμέμνονα ἐπὶ σκηνῆς ἀναιρεῖσθαι ποιεῖ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Ag.” argument, cf. Scholia 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 1116 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also,= extra versum, τὸ φεῦ ἰδίως [[ Scholia 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 41 (variant{ἰδίᾳ}). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__VI.2 ἰδίᾳ, Ionic dialect -ιη, as adverb, by oneself, privately, on one's own account, θύοντι ἰδίῃ μούνῳ [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.132, compare 192, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 467; οὔτε ἰδίᾳ οὔτε ἐν κοινῷ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.141; καὶ ἰ. καὶ δημοσίᾳ [prev. author] 3.45, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 30b; καὶ ἰ. καὶ κοινῇ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 40.3; ἰδίᾳ ἕκαστος 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.1, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 946d, etc.: with _genitive_, ἰ. τῆς φρενός] Refs 5th c.BC+] apart from.. , [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 102. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__VI.2.b in ordinary talk, opposed to ὑπὸ ποιητῶν, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 363e, compare 606c; see above 111. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__VI.3 κατ᾽ ἰδίαν in private, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 169; κατ᾽ ἰδίαν εἰπεῖν τινι 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 1.21 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; κατ᾽ ἰ. λαβεῖν τινα to take him aside, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 4.84.8 ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; also, separately, apart, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.120d; οἱ κατ᾽ ἰ. βίοι 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.71.1. (ϝίδιος “Tab.Heracl.” 1.13, +others, “Schwyzer” 324.4 (Delph., 4th c.BC), “IG” 9(1).333.12 (_Locrian dialect_, 5th c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+], etc.; with spiritus asper, ἐκ τοῦ ηιδίου [[ “Jahresh.” 14 “Beibl.” 141 (Argos, 5th c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; καθ᾽ ἱδίαν [[ “IG” 22.891.6, 5(1).6 (_Laconian dialect_), 9(2).66 (from Lamia), 6th c.AD: Aëtius Medicus 3.159, etc.] Refs 6th c.AD+]; καθ᾽ ἱδδίαν probably in [[ “IG” 9(2).461.26 (Thess.).) ] Refs]
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