ἀποικ-ία,
Ionic dialect -ιη, ἡ, (ἄποικος) settlement far from home, colony, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.24, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 373.6, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.146, “IG” 1.31, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; correlative to μητρόπολις, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.34] Refs 5th c.BC+]; εἰς ἀ. στέλλειν, ἄγειν, send, lead to form a settlement, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.147, 5.124; ἀ. κτίσαι 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 814; ἀ. ἐκπέμπειν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.12] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀ. κηρύσσειν ἐς τόπον[[ [prev. work] 27; ἀ. ποιεῖσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 702c] Refs 5th c.BC+]; στέλλειν(of the οἰκιστής) [[ 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 8.6.22] Refs 1st c.BC+]; ἀποστέλλειν (of the μητρόπολις) [[ 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 2.176] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἡ κώμη ἀ. οἰκίας is an offshoot from.., [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1252b17. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2 migration, [[ 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 2.410. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__II charter granted to a colony, [[ 4th c.BC: Hyperides Orator “Fragmenta” 73.] Refs 4th c.BC+]