οἰκέτ-ης, ου, ὁ,
(οἶκος) household slave, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 737, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.137, 7.170, 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 1.30, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.4; δημόσιος οἰ. τῆς πόλεως 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.54. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 οἱ οἰκέται also, ={οἰκετεία}, household, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 732 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.4, 106, 142, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 908, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.2.2: hence opposed to δοῦλοι, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 763a, 777a, 853e; διαφέρειν φησὶ Χρύσιππος δοῦλον οἰκέτου, διὰ τὸ τοὺς ἀπελευθέρους μὲν δούλους ἔτι εἶναι, οἰκέτας δὲ τοὺς μὴ τῆς κτήσεως ἀφειμένους “Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta” 3.86: but frequently synonymous with δοῦλος, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1252b12, +others, “PLille” 29.2 (3rd c.BC), “IG” 5(1).1390.77 (Andania, 1st c.BC) ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; δοῦλος μεῖζον οἰκέτου φρονῶν [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 796. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II as epithet of Apollo, ἱερέως.. Καρνείου Βοικέτα [Β = ϝ] [[ “IG” 5(1).497, compare 589,608 (from Sparta). (Cf. οἰκότης.) ] Refs]