Οἰκονομῶν
managing
Translated by Jennifer Benedict22 Jun 2003Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
Meaning [someone] inhabiting his ancestral houses. "Like some unworthy incomer I manage my father's houses."1
Also [sc. attested is the related noun] "[household] management" [oikonomia], [meaning] the arrangement of certain matters. And poets employ oikonomia, that is the distribution of the characters.
Also [sc. attested is the related noun] "[household] management" [oikonomia], [meaning] the arrangement of certain matters. And poets employ oikonomia, that is the distribution of the characters.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Οἰκονομῶν· ἀντὶ τοῦ ἐνδιαιτώμενος τοὺς πατρῴους οἴκους. οἷά τις ἔποικος ἀνάξια οἰκονομῶ δόμους πατρός. καὶ Οἰκονομία, ὁ διαμερισμὸς τινῶν πραγμάτων. καὶ οἱ ποιηταὶ χρῶνται οἰκονομίᾳ, τουτέστι τῷ τῶν προσώπων διαμερισμῷ.
Betacode
*oi)konomw=n: a)nti\ tou= e)ndiaitw/menos tou\s patrw/|ous oi)/kous. oi(=a/ tis e)/poikos a)na/cia oi)konomw= do/mous patro/s. kai\ *oi)konomi/a, o( diamerismo\s tinw=n pragma/twn. kai\ oi( poihtai\ xrw=ntai oi)konomi/a|, toute/sti tw=| tw=n prosw/pwn diamerismw=|.
Notes (1)
- For this verb see already omicroniota 72. The headword of the present entry, its present participle (masculine nominative singular), is evidently quoted from somewhere.
- 1Sophocles, Electra 189-190 (web address 1 below), with comment from the scholia to lines 185 and 188. ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history4 revisions · last 21 Mar 2021
- tweaked link — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- augmented primary note; more keywords; tweaks — David Whitehead
- modified translation; augmented and modified notes; added a keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Jennifer Benedict