Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

οἰκούριος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: οἰκούριος οἰκούριον

Structure: οἰκουρι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of or for housekeeping, wages, reward for keeping the house
  2. keeping within doors, female house-

Examples

  • ἔδει γὰρ εὐθυμοτέρασ εἶναι γυναῖκασ ἀνδρῶν οἰκουρίᾳ τὰ πολλὰ συνούσασ· (Plutarch, De tranquilitate animi, section 2 1:3)
  • ἔδει γὰρ εὐθυμοτέρασ εἶναι γυναῖκασ ἀνδρῶν οἰκουρίᾳ τὰ πολλὰ συνούσασ· (Plutarch, De tranquilitate animi, section 2 3:1)
  • πότερον, ὡσ ἔνιοι λέγουσιν, οὐκ οἰκουρίᾳ τὸν Ἡρακλέα χαίρειν ἀλλ’ ὑπαίθρῳ βίῳ καὶ θυραυλίαισ νομίζοντεσ; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 282)
  • πότερον ὡσ ἔνιοι λέγουσιν οὐκ οἰκουρίᾳ τὸν Ἡρακλέα χαίρειν ἀλλ’ ὑπαίθρῳ βίῳ καὶ θυραυλίαισ νομίζοντεσ· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 282)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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