οἶκος, ὁ,
house, not only of built houses, but of any dwelling-place, as that of Achilles at Troy (see. κλισία), [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.471, 572, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 65 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of the Cyclops' cave, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.478 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of a tent, [[ LXX.Gen.31.33 ] LXX]; οἶκον ἱκάνεται is coming home, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 23.7 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; εἰς or ἐς οἶκον [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 459, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 240; πρὸς οἶκον 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 867, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1491, etc.; κατ᾽ οἶκον [prev. author] “El.” 929, etc.; κατ᾽ οἶκον ἐν δόμοις [prev. author] “Tr.” 689 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἱ κατ᾽ οἶκον[[ [prev. work] 934; αἱ κατ᾽ οἶκον κακοπραγίαι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.60; τἂν οἴκῳ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 579; ἐν οἴκῳ καθεύδειν 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 2.1.4,8; οἱ ἐν οἴκῳ “PCair.Zen.” 93.10 (3rd c.BC); ἐξ οἴκου ἀποδημεῖν [prev. work] 44.23 (3rd c.BC) ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐπ᾽ οἴκου ἀποχωρῆσαι go home wards, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.87, compare 30, 108, 2.31, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀπ᾽ οἴκου from home, [[ [prev. author] 1.99, etc. ] Refs]; compare οἰκία.
__b frequently omitted after εἰς or ἐν, see at {εἰς} [[ 1.4c, ἐν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus 1.2. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2 room, chamber, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.356, 19.514, 598; οἶ. θερμός 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 2.164 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; dining-hall, ἑπτάκλινος οἶ. [[ 2nd c.AD: Phrynichus Atticista Comedy texts 66, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 2.18 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; room in a temple, [[ “IG” 42(1).110 A 27, +others(Epid., _plural_): _plural_ οἶκοι] Refs] frequently, = a single house, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 24.417, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 230, 524, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; κλαυθμῶν τῶν ἐξ οἴκων domestic griefs, [[ [prev. author] “Ag.” 1554 (_anapaest meter_); ἀπ᾽ οἴκων 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 762 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐς or πρὸς οἴκους, [[ [prev. author] “Ph.” 311, 383 ] Refs]; κατ᾽ οἴκους at home, within, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.79, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 65, 4th c.BC: Mnesimachus Comicus 4.52. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]