Lexicographical Neighbors of Oecist
Literary usage of Oecist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Thucydides: Book I. by Thucydides (1895)
"When a city which was herself a colony founded a colony in her turn, the oecist
was generally summoned from the original mother city (i. »4). ..."
2. A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great by John Bagnell Bury (1913)
"W?hen, as frequently befell, the colony determined herself in turn to throw off
a new shoot, it was the recognised custom that she should seek the oecist or ..."
3. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 93 by Harvard University (1892)
"128; Cypselus was the name of the father of Miltiades, the oecist of the Thracian
Chersonese (Herod. VI. 35; cf. ..."
4. Thucydides, Book V by Thucydides (1888)
"Arbitrary adoption and change of ' oecist ' is mentioned in vi. ... Such action
and feeling after death was ascribed to the 'oecist ' who was worshipped as ..."
5. A Handbook of Greek Constitutional History by Abel Hendy Jones Greenidge (1896)
"... to be the oecist, the guide and leader, of the new enterprise, and gives him
the fullest power over the details of the " establishment" of the colony.1 ..."
6. Classical Philology by University of Chicago press, JSTOR (Organization) (1917)
"In an important inscription from Magnesia on the Maeander both the colonists and
the oecist make separate inquiries of the god. ..."
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