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διοικ-έω , impf.
A.“διῴκουν” Th.8.21, etc.: fut. “-ήσω” Pl.Men.73b: aor. “διῴκησα” Isoc.1.35, etc.: pf. “διῴκηκα” Pl.Ti.19e, D.24.202:—Med., fut. “-ήσομαι” Id.8.13 (also in pass. sense, Hdn.8.7.6): aor. “διῳκησάμην” D.18.247: pf. (in med. sense) διῴκημαι (v. infr.):—Pass., aor. “διῳκήθην” Luc.Nec.19: pf. “διῴκημαι” Arist.Ath.25.2, dub. l. in Antiph.191.18, D.22.74: plpf. διῴκητο （προ-) Id.23.14; but with both augm. and redupl., pf. “δεδιῴκημαι” Antiph.155, Machoap.Ath.8.341c, Phld.Rh.2.266S.:—keep house: hence, generally, control, manage, administer, “τὴν πόλιν” Th.8.21, etc.; “τὰ τῆς πόλεως” Ar.Ec.305; “τάς τε οἰκίας καὶ τὰς πόλεις” Pl.Men. 91a; “τὸν κόσμον” Id.Phdr.246c; “τὸν οὐρανόν” Id.Lg.896e; τὰ ἀνθρώπινα ib.713c; “τὸν ἑαυτοῦ βίον” Isoc.1.10; “τὴν οὐσίαν” D.27.50, etc.; “τὰ κοινά” Id.1.22; “τὴν ἀρχήν” Arist.Pol.1313a35; “τὰ μέγιστα ὁ λογισμὸς διῴκηκε” Epicur.Sent.16; δ. πάντα ἀκριβῶς, of a housekeeper, Lys. 1.7; “πολέμους” Din.1.69; of a financier, δ. τὰ πρὸς τὴν πόλιν, ἐπὶ τῇ τραπέζῃ, D.27.60, 45.33; “πεντεκαίδεκα τάλαντα, ἃ Καλλισθένης διῴκησεν” Id.20.33; administer as deputy, “τὴν λογιστείαν” Stud.Pal.8.1010.1 (iii/iv A. D.):—Pass., to be ordered, managed, etc., “τύχῃ δ.” Hp.VM1, Aeschin.1.4; “ἅπας ὁ βίος φύσει καὶ νόμοις δ.” D.25.15:—Med., manage after one's own will and pleasure, “τὰ πράγματα διοικήσασθαι” Id.4.12: pf. Pass. (in med. sense), “ἵν᾽ ἃ βουλόμεθα ὦμεν διῳκημένοι” Id.18.178; διοικούμενος οὕτως ἀδίκους πλεονεξίας managing to make such iniquitous profits, Id.44.38, cf. 40; διοικεῖσθαι πρὸς ἀλλήλους act collusively with . . , Id.58.20, cf. 19. b. abs., exercise authority, govern, “τυραννικώτερον” Arist.Pol.1313a2, cf. 1298b12.
2. provide, furnish, “ἀπορῶ τἆλλα ὁπόθεν διοικῶ” D.27.66, cf. Decr. ap. eund.24.27 (Pass.); δ. τὴν ἀδελφήν provide for, settle her, D.24.202:—Pass., to be nourished or supported, “ὑπό τινος” Str.14.2.24; “γάλακτι” Ath.2.46e (dub. l.).
3. rent, farm, “νομῶν τῶν πρὸς χαλκὸν διοικουμένων” PTeb.79.8 (ii B. C.), al.
4. digest food, D.L.6.34.
5. Rhet., Med., distribute, arrange in a discourse, D.H.Rh.9.4.
II. inhabit distinct places, Pl.Ti.19e:—Med., live apart, “κατὰ κώμας” X.HG5.2.5 (s. v. l.; διοικ<ι>οῖντο Cobet).
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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