οἰκονομ-ία, ἡ,
management of a household or family, husbandry, thrift, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 36b, “R.” 498a, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 1.1, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1141b32, “Pol.” 1253b2 ff.: _plural_, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 407b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; households, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Generatione Animalium” 744b18. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2 generally, direction, regulation, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 1p.29U. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; especially of a State, administration, αἱ κατὰ τὴν πόλιν οἰ. [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Dinarchus Orator 1.97 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; principles of government, [[ 3rd c.BC: Chrysippus Stoicus 2.338; τῶν γεγονότων 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.4.3, +others; πολιτικὴ οἰ. 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 2.32 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus; ἡ τῆς ἀρχῆς οἰ. 2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus 6.1.1 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of a fund, [[ “SIG” 577.9 (Milet., 3rd-2nd c.BC). ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__3 arrangement, ἡ περὶ τὸν νοσέοντα οἰ. [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 6.2.24 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ περὶ τῶν ὠνίων οἰ. market, fair, [[ “SIG” 695.35 (5th c.BC: Magnes Comicus Mae.); οἰκονομίαι ] Refs 5th c.BC+]proceedings, [[ Inscriptiones Graecae 9(1).226 (from Drymaea) ] Refs]; τίνα οἰκονομίαν προσαγήγοχας what steps you have taken, [[ “PCair.Zen.” 240.10 (3rd c.BC) ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; αὕτη φύσεως οἰ. [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 6.9.10 ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; of a literary work, arrangement, ἡ κατὰ μέρος οἰ. [[ 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 5.1, compare 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “Epistula ad Pompeium” 4, “Comp.” 25, Scholia 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.328: _plural_, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.142a. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]