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οἰκέω,
Epic dialect οἰκείω [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 330 ] Refs 8th c.BC+], Locrian dialect ϝοικέω [[ “IG” 9(1).334.29 ] Refs]; Aeolic dialect present participle οἴκεις [[ 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 69 ] Refs 7th c.BC+]; argument 3rd.pers. singular present optative οἰκείη [[ “BCH” 33.452 ] Refs]: imperfect ᾤκεον [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.218, +others, _Attic dialect_ ᾤκουν,] Refs 8th c.BC+] Ionic dialect οἴκεον [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.57 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: future οἰκήσω [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 1508 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist ᾤκησα [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.1 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: perfect ᾤκηκα [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1101:] Refs 5th c.BC+] — passive and middle, future οἰκήσομαι in middle sense,[[ Men.Rh. p.363 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; but in passive, see [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus 11] Refs 4th c.BC+]: aorist ᾠκήθην [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.668, etc.; ᾠκησάμην 2nd c.AD: Aristides Rhetor 1.103 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus: ] Refs 8th c.BC+]perfect ᾤκημαι as middle and passive, Ionic dialect 3rd.pers. plural οἰκέαται, see [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus 1.2] Refs 4th c.BC+], 3: (οἶκος):
__A transitive, inhabit, ὑπωρείας ᾤκεον πολυπίδακος Ἴδης [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.218 (elsewhere in 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus always _intransitive_, see infr. B) ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; οἰ. τοῦτον τὸν χῶρον [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.1, compare 175, etc.; οἰ. δόμους 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 961; ἄντρον [prev. author] “Eu.” 194: _metaphorically_, οἰ. αἰῶνα καὶ μοῖραν] Refs 5th c.BC+] have, enjoy, E. [prev. cited]:—passive, to be inhabited, οἰκέοιτο πόλις Πριάμοιο [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.18; ἐς γῆν.. οἰκουμένην 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 221 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; διὰ τῆς οἰκεομένης through the inhabited country, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.32; ὁδοιπόρεον ἐς τὴν οἰκεομένην [prev. author] 4.110 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰς ἄλλας πόλιας οἰκεομένας μηδὲν ἧσσον although inhabited no less than before, [[ [prev. author] 1.170: for ἡ οἰκουμένη, see entry. ] Refs]
Close Browse lexicon entries __2 colonize, settle in, τὰς πλείστας τῶν νήσων [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.8, compare 2.27 ] Refs 5th c.BC+], etc.; πόλιν probably in [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 360.11 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; νῆσον οἰκῆσαι, i.e. to be deported, [[ “POxy.” 1101.24 (4th c.AD)] Refs 4th c.AD+]: in perfect passive, to be settled in, occupy, τοῖσι τὰς νήσους οἰκημένοισι Ἴωσι [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.27; αἱ δύο [πόλιες] νήσους οἰκέαται [prev. work] 142 (compare below 3). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 in passive, to be settled, of men or tribes to whom new abodes are assigned, τριχθὰ ᾤκηθεν καταφυλαδόν [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.668: _Ionic dialect_ ] Refs 8th c.BC+]perfect passive οἴκημαι, as present, οἱ ἐν τῇ ἠπείρῳ οἰκημένοι Ἕλληνες those who have been settled, i.e. those who dwell.., [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.27; οἱ ἐντὸς Ἅλυος ποταμοῦ οἰ. [prev. work] 28, compare 8.115 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also of cities, to be situated, lie, παρ᾽ ὃν [ποταμὸν] Νίνος πόλις οἴκητο [[ [prev. author] 1.193. ] Refs]
__II manage, direct a household or a state, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1535 (uncertain meaning), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 386, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.37; οἴκει τὴν πόλιν ὁμοίως ὥσπερ τὸν πατρῷον οἶκον 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 2.19: _metaphorically_, μὴ τὸν ἐμὸν οἴκει νοῦν] Refs 5th c.BC+] don't manage.., [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 144:] Refs 5th c.BC+] — passive, εὖ οἰκούμεναι πόλεις well governed, [[ [prev. author] “Hipp.” 486 ] Refs]; μετρίως, ὀρθῶς, ἄριστα οἰ., [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 936b, “R.” 371c, 520d, etc.; πατρίδος τετυχηκὼς ἣ νόμοις.. μάλιστα οἰκεῖσθαι δοκεῖ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.150: ] Refs 5th c.BC+]future οἰκήσεται in passive sense, καθ᾽ ὅτι ἄριστα ἡ πόλις οἰκήσεται [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.67, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Laches” 185a, 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.22, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 58.62, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1284b38. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B intransitive, dwell, live, of persons, families, or tribes, have their abodes, settlements, in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus and 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus generally with ἐν.., ᾤκεον δ᾽ ἐν Πλευρῶνι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.116, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.200, 400; οἴκεε ἐν Πίνδῳ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.56, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1234, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 967 (Oracle texts), 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.78 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; especially of metics, ἐγ Κολλυτῷ οἰκοῦντι [[ “IG” 12.373.60, +others; κατὰ στέγας 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 314; ὑπὸ χθονός [prev. author] “fragment” 450: after 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus with _dative_ (_locative_) alone, Σαλαμῖνι “IG” 12.1.2 (6th c.BC) ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; οὐρανῷ [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 10.58; ναοῖσι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 314; ἐλθόνθ᾽ ἁγνὸν ἐς Θήβης πέδον οἰ. 4th c.BC: Eubulus Comicus 10; παρὰ κρημνοῖσιν 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 3.34; παρὰ ὄχθον 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 1098 (Lyric poetry) ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἰ. μετά τινος, ={συνοικεῖν τινι}, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 414, 990 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κέρδη μὲν οἰκήσαντα.. having fixed my dwelling [there] with gain to my hosts, [[ [prev. author] “OC” 92 ] Refs]; τὸ τὴν φροντίδ᾽ ἔξω τῶν κακῶν οἰκεῖν γλυκύ sweet it is for the mind to keep free from cares, [[ [prev. author] “OT” 1390 ] Refs]; ἐπὶ προστάτου οἰ. (see. προστάτης) [[ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 31.9. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.II of cities, to be situated, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.166, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 7.1.3, 7.5 5 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; but τὴν πόλιν σποράδην καὶ κατὰ κώμας οἰκοῦσαν formed of detached villages, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 10.35, compare 4.39 ] Refs 5th c.BC+] (so in passive, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.4.1). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.II.2 to be governed or administered, τίς τῶν πόλεων διὰ σὲ βέλτιον ᾤκησε; [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 599d, compare 462d, 472e, 473a, 543a, +others] Refs 5th c.BC+]: frequently hardly distinguishable from the passive (above [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus II) ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; σωφρόνως γε οἰκοῦσα [πόλις] εὖ ἂν οἰκοῖτο a state administered by self-control would be well governed, [[ [prev. author] “Chrm.” 162a; ἀρετῆς, ᾗ πόλεις τε καὶ οἶκοι εὖ οἰκοῦσι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.2.64 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; εἰς ὀλίγους, εἰς πλείους οἰκεῖν, to be governed in the interest of the few or the many, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.37. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
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