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κατοικ-ία , ἡ,
A.habitation, “βαρβάρων” Hecat.119 J.; “τόπος εὐφυὴς πρὸς κ.” Plb.5.78.5; “ὑγιεινὴν ποιεῖν τὴν κ.” Str.5.4.8; farm, village, Plb.2.32.4, etc.: generally, dwelling-place, Act.Ap.17.26; domicile, Mitteis Chr.31 i 23 (ii B.C.).
2. settlement, colony, Str.5.4.11; esp. of military colonies in Egypt, PTeb.61(b).227 (ii B.C.), etc.; also, = Lat. colonia, Str.6.2.5, Plu.Ant.16,App.BC5.19; κατοικίαι πόλεων foundation of colonies, Plu.Pomp.47.
3. body of residents in a foreign city, “ἡ κ. τῶν ἐν Ἱεραπόλει κατοικούντων Ἰουδαίων” IGRom.4.834.
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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    • Strabo, Geography, 5.4.11
    • Strabo, Geography, 5.4.8
    • Strabo, Geography, 6.2.5
    • Polybius, Histories, 2.32.4
    • Polybius, Histories, 5.78.5
    • Plutarch, Pompey, 47
    • Plutarch, Antonius, 16
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