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διοίκ-ησις , εως, ἡ, prop.
A.housekeeping: hence, generally, internal administration, “τῆς πόλεως” Pl.Prt.319d, cf. Arist. Pol.1287a6, Lys.30.22, etc.; “ἐγκύκλιος δ.” Arist.Ath.43.1; “κοινὴ δ.” Aeschin.2.149; esp. of financial administration, “δ. ἱερὰ καὶ ὁσία” D. 24.96, cf. X.HG6.1.2; department of finance in Egypt, PTeb.7.4 (ii B. C.), al.; ὅπως . . ἡ δ. γένηται ἱκανή Decr. ap. D.24.27; “ὁ ἐπὶ τῇ δ.” treasurer, IG2.251, al., Poll.8.113; “ὁ ἐπὶ τῆς διοικήσεως” IG22.677, Decr. ap. D.18.38 (in Egypt, = διοικητής, PRev.Laws19.7); “τὰ περιόντα χρήματα τῆς δ.” D.59.4.
2. farming, renting, [χλωρῶν] PTeb.61（a).206 (ii B. C.), etc.
II. = Lat. conventus, assize-district, Str.13.4.12, Cic.Fam.13.53.2, 67.1, OGI458.65 (Eumenia); later, group of provinces, CIL3.352 (iv A. D.), etc.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 13.53.2
    • Aeschines, On the Embassy, 149
    • Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians, 43.1
    • Demosthenes, On the Crown, 38
    • Demosthenes, Against Timocrates, 27
    • Demosthenes, Against Timocrates, 96
    • Demosthenes, Against Neaera, 4
    • Lysias, Against Nicomachus, 22
    • Plato, Protagoras, 319d
    • Strabo, Geography, 13.4.12
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 6.1.2
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