οἰκονομικός

oikonomikos

practised in the management of a household

Appears 5 times across Plato's dialogues.

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Alcibiades I 1
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133e11
Laws 1
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Book VII 1
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808b1
Lovers 1
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138c9
Phaedrus 1
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248d5
Statesman 1
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259c3

Dictionary (LSJ)

οἰκονομικός, ή, όν, A. practised in the management of a household or family, opp. πολιτικός, Pl. Alc. 1.133e, Phdr. 248d, X. Oec. 1.3, Arist. Pol. 1252a8, etc. : Sup., [κτημάτων] τὸ βέλτιστον καὶ -ώτατον, of man, Phld. Oec.p.30 J. : hence, thrifty, frugal, economical, X. Mem. 4.2.39, Phylarch. 65 J. (Comp.) : ὁ οἰ. title of treatise on the duties of domestic life, by Xenophon ; and τὰ οἰ. title of treatise on public finance, ascribed to Aristotle, cf. X. Cyr. 8.1.14 : ἡ -κή (sc. τέχνη) domestic economy, husbandry, Pl. Plt. 259c, X. Mem. 3.4.11, etc. ; οἰ. ἀρχή defined as ἡ τέκνων ἀρχὴ καὶ γυναικὸς καὶ τῆς οἰκίας πάσης, Arist. Pol. 1278b38 ; applied to patriarchal rule, ib.1285b32. Adv.-κῶς Ph. 2.426, Plu. 2.1126a ; also in literary sense, in a well ordered manner, Sch.Th. 1.63.

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