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οἴκ-ημα , ατος, τό,
A.dwelling-place, “ἱερὸν ἔσχον οἴ. ποταμοῦ” Pi.O.2.9: in pl., building, house, Hdt.1.17, 9.13, Paus.10.5.2, etc.
2. room, chamber, Hdt.1.164, 179, 2.121.ά, 148, Th.1.134, 3.68, Lys.19.31, Pl.Thg. 130d, Prt.315d, etc. ; esp. bed-chamber, Hdt.1.9, 10, Pl.Smp.217d ; dining-room, Heraclid. Cum.2(pl.).
II. special senses,
1. brothel, “τὴν θυγατέρα κατίσαι ἐπ᾽ οἰκήματος” Hdt.2.121. έ, 126 ; “στῆσαί τινα ἐπ᾽ οἰ.” Din.1.23 ; “ἐπ̓ οἰ. καθῆσθαι” Pl.Chrm.163b, cf. Aeschin.1.94, Isoc.6.19 ; cf. τέγος.
2. = οἰκίσκος, cage for animals, Hdt.7.119.
3. horse's stable or stall, PCair.Zen.529.5 (iii B. C.).
4. temple, shrine, Hdt.8.144.
b. room in a temple, IG12.4.2,14.
5. prison, Th.4.47, Lys.Fr.75.4, D.32.29, Act.Ap.12.7.
6. storeroom, D.42.6,19(pl.).
7. workshop, Pl.Prt.321d.
8. story, floor, X.Cyr.6.1.52 (dub. l.).
9. metaph., αἰσθητικὸν οἴ., of man, Secund.Sent.7.
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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    • Aeschines, Against Timarchus, 94
    • Demosthenes, Against Zenothemis, 29
    • Demosthenes, Against Phaenippus, 6
    • Herodotus, Histories, 9.13
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.164
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.17
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.9
    • Herodotus, Histories, 2.121
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.119
    • Herodotus, Histories, 8.144
    • Isocrates, Archidamus, 19
    • Lysias, On the Property of Aristophanes, 31
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 10.5.2
    • Plato, Symposium, 217d
    • Plato, Charmides, 163b
    • Plato, Theages, 130d
    • Plato, Protagoras, 315d
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    • Thucydides, Histories, 3.68
    • Thucydides, Histories, 1.134
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 6.1.52
    • New Testament, Acts, 12.7
    • Thucydides, Histories, 4.47
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