οἰκί-α,
Ionic dialect οἰκίη, Cretan dialect and Locrian dialect ϝοικία, [[ “Leg.Gort.” 5.26, “Berl.Sitzb.” 1927.8 (5th c.BC),compare “IG” 14.636 (from Petelia)] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—ἡ, building, house, dwelling, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.17, 114, etc.; ἡ οἰκία ἡ δημοσία “IG” 12.94.36; οἰκία ἱερά [prev. work]363.24; κατ᾽ οἰκίαν] Refs 5th c.BC+] at home, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Laches” 180d; ἰδίᾳ καὶ κατ᾽ οἰκίας [prev. author] “Lg.” 788a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἔτυχεν ἐπὶ τῆς οἰ. was at home, [[ 2nd c.AD(?): Xenophon Ephesius Scriptor Eroticus 5.4: in Comedy texts and Attic Prose much more frequently than οἶκος: sometimes opposed to οἶκος] Refs 2nd c.AD+] as house to set of apartments or room, τᾶν οἰκιᾶν τιμὰν κομιζέσθω τῶ οἴκω ἑκάστω δύο μνᾶς [[ “SIG” 306.16 (Tegea, 4th c.BC),compare “PTeb.” 46.9 (compare 18) (2nd c.BC), 38.14, 15 (2nd c.BC), “PFay.” 31.11 (2nd c.AD). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2 in Attic dialect 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 [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 1.5, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.224, 4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Gal.fragment” 12, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 distinguished from συνοικία, as one's own apartments from those let out to lodgers, [[ 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.124. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II household, domestic establishment, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 520e ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; δὔ οἰκίας ᾤκει, i. e. he kept two establishments, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 39.26, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1265b26 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; more primitive than the πόλις,[[ [prev. work] 1252b17, “EN” 1162a18, +others ] Refs]; ὁ ἐπὶ τῆς οἰκίας the house-steward, [[ “PCair.Zen.” 150.16 (3rd c.BC). ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]