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οἰκουμέν-η (sc. γῆ), ,
A.inhabited region, v. οἰκέω A. 1 ; then the Greek world, opp. barbarian lands, D.7.35 ; “πᾶσα οἰ.Id.18.48 ; in Arist.Mete.362b26, οἰ., = the inhabited world (including non-Greek lands, as Ethiopia, India, Scythia), as opp. possibly uninhabited regions, cf. Cleom.2.1 ; in Arist.Mu.392b26, ἥδε οἰ., = our world (= Asia, Libya, Europe); οἰκουμέναι worlds, ib.31 ; “ φιλία περιχορεύει τὴν οἰ.Epicur.Sent.Vat.52 ; σοῦ (i.e. Ptolemy 11 or 111) “τῆς οἰ. πάσης βασιλεύοντοςPSI5.541.7, cf. LXX 1 Es.2.3 ; loosely, the whole world, Hyp.Eux.33 (prob.), Antiph.179, PMag.Lond.121.704, Luc. Halc.3, Ath.8.350a : so perh. in some passages cited under 11.
II. the Roman world, ἀγαθὸς δαίμων (etc.) τῆς οἰ., i.e. the Emperor, OGI666.4,668.5, POxy.1021.5 (i A.D.), CIG2581-2,4416,Ev.Luc.2.1, Act.Ap.17.6, 24.5, Sammelb.176.2 (ii A.D.), Gal.10.7, Luc.Macr. 7.
III. οἰ. μέλλουσα the world to come, i.e. the kingdom of Christ, Ep.Hebr.2.5.
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