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οἰκεῖος , α, ον, also ος, ον E.Heracl.634 ; Ion. οἰκήϊος , η, ον :
A.in or of the house, once in Hes., “δούρατ᾽ ἀμάξης οἰκήϊα θέσθαι” Op.457 ; “λέβης” A. Fr.1 ; “κῆρυξ” S.Tr.757 ; of or for household affairs, domestic (for οἰκηΐη, v. οἰκία II), “τὰ οἰ.” household affairs, property, Hdt.2.37, S.Ant.661 ; “τὰ οἰ. ἀγαθά” X.Oec.9.18 ; τὰ οἰ. τὰ αὑτοῦ his household goods, Lys.13.41 ; opp. πολιτικά, Th.2.40 ; opp. τὰ τῆς πόλεως, Pl.Ap.23b.
2. Astrol., οἰ. ζῴδια domiciliary signs, Vett.Val.37.21, al.
II. of persons, of the same household, family, or kin, related, ὥς οἱ ἐόντες οἰκήϊοι as being akin to him, Hdt.4.65 ; οἰκεῖον οὕτως οὐδὲν . . ὡς ἀνήρ τε καὶ γυνή so closely akin, Men.647 ; ἀνὴρ οἰ. kinsman, relative, near friend, Hdt.1.108 ; οἱ οἰ. kinsmen, opp. οἱ ἀλλότριοι, And.4.15, cf. Th.2.51 ; opp. ὀθνεῖοι, Pl. Prt.316c ; οἱ ἑωυτοῦ οἰκηϊότατοι his own nearest kinsmen, Hdt.3.65, cf. 5.5, D.18.288 ; of the tie itself, κατὰ τὸ οἰ. Ἀτρεῖ because of his relationship to Atreus, Th.1.9.
2. friendly, “εἴχομέν ποτε . . τὸν τόπον τοῦτον οἰ.” D.4.4 ; “οὓς ἂν ἡγήσαιτο -οτάτους τε καὶ ἑταιροτάτους” Pl. Phd.89e.
III. of things. belonging to one's house or family, one's own (defined as “ὅταν ἐφ᾽ αὑτῷ ᾖ ἀπαλλοτριῶσαι” Arist.Rh.1361a21), “οἰ. ἄρουραι” Pi.O.12.19 ; “σταθμοῖς ἐν οἰκείοισι” A.Pr.398 ; γῆ, χθών, S.Aj. 859,Ant.1203 ; οἰκεῖον, ἢ 'ξ ἄλλου τινός ; born in the house, or . . ? Id.OT1162 ; αἱ οἰ. πόλεις their own cities, X.HG3.5.2 ; ἡ οἰ. (sc. γῆ), Ion. “ἡ οἰκηΐη” Hdt.1.64 ; [ἀναθήματα] οἰκήϊα his own property, ib.92 ; πόλεμοι οἰ. wars in one's own country, of the Helot war in Laconia, Th.1.118, cf.4.64 ; “σῖτος οἰ. καὶ οὐκ ἐπακτός” homegrown, Id.6.20.
2. = ἴδιος, one's own, personal, private, “οἰκείων κερδέων εἵνεκα” Thgn.46 ; “ἐὼν ἐν κακῷ οἰκηΐῳ” Hdt.1.45, cf. 153, Antipho 1.13 ; “αἱ χεῖρες -ότεραι τοῦ σιδήρου” Id.4.3.3 ; μηδὲν -οτέρᾳ τῇ ἀπολαύσει with enjoyment not more our own, Th.2.38, cf. 7.70 ; “ἀλλοτρίας γῆς πέρι οἰ. κίνδυνον ἔχειν” Id.3.13 ; οἰ. ξύνεσις mother wit, Id.1.138 ; πρὸς οἰκείας χερός by his own hand, S.Ant.1176, etc.; for A.Ag.1220, v. βορά.
b. in Stoic Philos., endeared by nature to all animals, including man, “τὸ πρῶτον οἰ.” what is earliest endeared, Chrysipp.Stoic.3.43, Hierocl. p.7A.
IV. proper to a thing, fitting, suitable, “οὔτε . . καλὸν οὐδὲν [οὐδ᾽] οἰκήϊον” Hdt.3.81, cf. D.18.59.
2. c. dat. rei, belonging to, conformable to the nature of a thing, “προοίμιον οἰ. ἑκάστῳ” Pl.Lg.772e, cf. R.468d, al., and freq. in Arist., as EN1098a29 : also c. gen., “τὰ αὐτῶν οἰ.” Pl.Phd.96d ; “οἰ. τῆς διαλεκτικῆς” Arist.Top.101b2, cf. EN1096b31, Rh.1360a22 ; “οἰ. πρός τι” Plb.5.105.1.
b. of persons, c. gen., a student of . . , “σοφίας” Str.17.1.5 ; addicted to, “καινοτομίας” Iamb.VP 30.176.
3. proper, fit, οἰ. κατάγελως fit subject for ridicule, Men. 160 ; οἰ. ὄνομα a word in its proper, literal sense, opp. metaphor, Arist. Rh.1404b35.
B. Adv. οἰκείως has the same senses as the Adj., οἰ φέρε bear it like your own affair, Ar.Th.197 ; διαλέγεσθαι οἰ. τινί converse familiarly with him, Th.6.57 ; “οἰ. χρῆσθαί τινι” to be on familiar terms, X. HG2.3.16 ; “οἰ. διακεῖσθαί τινι” Id.An.7.5.16 ; “πρός τι” Plb.13.1.2 ; “οἰ. δέχεσθαί τινας” D.18.215 ; “οἰ. ἔχειν τινί” Id.4.4, etc. : Comp. “-ότερον” Is. 1.49 ; “-οτέρως” Arist.Cat.7a16 : Sup. “-ότατα” Plb.5.106.4.
II. properly, naturally, Ar.Lys.1118, X.Oec.2.17 ; opp. ἀλλοτρίως, Epicur. Ep.1p.14U.
2. affectionately, dutifully, “ἔθαψε, περιέστειλεν οἰ.” Men. 325.12, cf. Th.2.60.
3. literally, actually, Gal.Phil.Hist.39 D.
4. Astrol., οἰ. σχηματίζεσθαι, of a planet, to be in its domicile, Vett.Val. 58.27, al.
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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