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οἰκέτ-ης , ου, ὁ
A.“, （οἶκος）” household slave, A.Ch.737, Hdt.6.137, 7.170, Antipho 1.30, Th.2.4 ; “δημόσιος οἰ. τῆς πόλεως” Aeschin.1.54.
2. οἱ οἰκέται also, = οἰκετεία, household, A.Ag.732 (lyr.), Hdt.8.4, 106,142, S.Tr.908, X.Cyr.4.2.2 : hence opp. δοῦλοι, Pl.Lg.763a, 777a, 853e ; “διαφέρειν φησὶ Χρύσιππος δοῦλον οἰκέτου, διὰ τὸ τοὺς ἀπελευθέρους μὲν δούλους ἔτι εἶναι, οἰκέτας δὲ τοὺς μὴ τῆς κτήσεως ἀφειμένους” Stoic.3.86 : but freq. synon. with δοῦλος, Arist.Pol.1252b12, al., PLille 29.2 (iii B. C.), IG5(1).1390.77 (Andania, i B. C.) ; “δοῦλος μεῖζον οἰκέτου φρονῶν” Men. 796.
II. as epith. of Apollo, ἱερέως . . Καρνείου Βοικέτα [Β = ϝ] IG5(1).497, cf. 589,608 (Sparta). (Cf. οἰκότης.）
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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