July 13, 2012

FORTHCOMING:


Wagner, James. The Idiocy: plays. Marysville: Esther Press, 2012. Print.


ISBN-10: 0615670326
ISBN-13: 978-0-615-67032-4
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OED

1814 SCOTT Wav. ix, It was apparently neither idiocy nor insanity which gave that wild, unsettled, irregular expression to a face which naturally was rather handsome.

from ἴδιος, idios ("private", "one's own")


Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon


ἴδιος:  [ι^δ], α, ον, Att. also ος, ον Pl.Prt.349b, Arist.HA532b32 (v. sub fin.):
I. one's own, pertaining to oneself: hence,
3. τὰ . private interests, opp. public, Th.1.82, 2.61, etc.; one's own property, Id.1.141, etc.; τὰ . πράττειν mind one's own business, in later Gr., Phryn.405, cf. 1 Ep.Thess.4.11; μένειν ἐπὶ τῶν . Plb.2.57.5; εἰς τὸ . καταθέσθαι for self, X.An.1.3.3, etc.: with Pron., τοὐμὸν . εἰπεῖν my personal opinion, Isoc.6.8; τὰ ἐμὰ . D.50.66; τὰ αὑτοῦ . Thgn.440 (dub.l.), cf.Antipho 5.61, Isoc.8.127; τὰ ὑμέτερα . D.19.307; τὰ . σφῶν αὐτῶν, τὰ . τὰ σφέτερα αὐτῶν, And.2.2,3.36; ἔγωγε τοὐμὸν . I for my own part, Luc.Merc.Cond.9.
4. of persons, personally attached to one, “ἴδιοι ΣελεύκουPlb.21.6.4, cf. Arist.Pol.1315a36, UPZ146.38 (ii B.C.), 109.18 (i B.C.); “ἄνθρωπος ἴδιος τῇ εὐνοίᾳ τῇ πρὸς . . PCair.Zen.32 (iii B.C.); “ταῖς εὐνοίαις ἴδιοιD.S.11.26; ἴδιοι, οἱ, members of one's family, relatives, BGU665 ii 1 (i A.D.), Vett.Val.70.5, etc.
5. . (sts. with κώμη added, BGU15.13 (ii A.D.)), one's place of origin, PTeb. 327.28 (ii A.D.), etc.: pl., καταπορεύεσθαι εἰς τὰς .ib.5.7 (ii B.C.).
6. in later Gr., almost as a possessive Pron.,= “ἑαυτοῦ, ἑαυτῶν, . φιλαγαθίαIG22.1011.71 (ii B.C.), etc.; “χρῶνται ὡς ἰδίοιςUPZ11.14 (ii B.C.); περὶ τῶν . βιβλίων, title of work by Galen.
b. . θάνατος one's own, i.e. a natural death, Ramsay Cities and Bishoprics No. 133; “ἰδίοις τελευτῶσι θανάτοιςPtol.Tetr.199; also ἰδία μοίρῃ Ramsay op.cit. No.187.
b. . λόγος, in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt, private account, “δεδώκαμεν Πύρωνι τὸν ἔσχατόν σου . λόγονPCair.Zen.253 (iii B.C.), cf. PGrenf.1.16 (ii B.C.), etc.; later, special account, a branch of the fiscal administration, Wilcken Chr.162 (ii B.C.), PAmh.2.31 (ii B.C.), PGnom.Prooem. (ii A.D.), etc.; “ γνώμων τοῦ . λόγουOGI669.44 (i A.D.); also as the title of the Controller, Str. 17.1.12 codd., OGI408 (ii A.D.), Mitteis Chr.372 vi 1 (ii A.D.).
3. peculiar, appropriate, ἴδια ὀνόματα proper, specific words, opp. περιέχοντα, class-names, Arist. Rh.1407a31; “ὄνομα . τινοςPl.R.580e; “τὸ . τοῦ ἐπαίνουLuc.Pr.Im. 19.
III. . λόγοι ordinary private conversation, opp. ποίησις, Pl. R.366e, cf. Euthd.305d; v. infr. VI. 2b.
IV. τὸ . characteristic property of a species, Arist.Top.102a18, 103b11, Chrysipp.Stoic.2.75, Plot.5.5.13; but also, distinguishing feature in a relative sense, “. πρός τιArist.Top.128b25.
V. regul. Comp. “ἰδιώτεροςIsoc.12.73, Thphr.HP3.1.6: Sup. “-ώτατοςD.23.65, Thphr.HP1.14.2; also ἰδιαίτερος, -αίτατος, Arist.PA656a26, 658b33; -αίτατος but not -αίτερος acc. to Thom.Mag.p.189R.
VI. Adv. ἰδίως , peculiarly, Isoc.5.108; severally, Pl.Lg.807b: Comp. “ἰδιωτέρωςThphr.HP1.13.4; “ὡς -ώτερον εἰπεῖνPhld.Oec.p.68 J.; “ἰδιαίτερονHdn.7.6.7: Sup. ἰδιώτατα (v.l. -αίτατα) D.S.19.1; ἰδίως καλεῖσθαι to be called specifically, Arist.Mu.394b28; “-αίτατα λέγεσθαιId.Mete.382a3; ἰδίως, opp. “κοινῶς, λέγεσθαιDemetr.Lac.Herc.1014.41 F. (but in Gramm., to be used as a proper name, D.T.634.13); in a peculiar sense or usage, Sch. Ar.Pl.115; “.Αἰσχύλος τὸν Ἀγαμέμνονα ἐπὶ σκηνῆς ἀναιρεῖσθαι ποιεῖA. Ag.Arg., cf. Sch.E.Ph.1116; also,= extra versum, τὸ "φεῦ" ἰδίως Sch. Ar.Nu.41 (v.l. ἰδίᾳ).
b. in ordinary talk, opp. ὑπὸ ποιητῶν, Pl.R.363e, cf. 606c; v. supr. 111.
3. κατ᾽ ἰδίαν in private, Philem.169; “κατ᾽ ἰδίαν εἰπεῖν τινιD.S.1.21; κατ᾽ . λαβεῖν τινα to take him aside, Plb.4.84.8; also, separately, apart, Plu.2.120d; “οἱ κατ᾽ . βίοιPlb.1.71.1. (“ϝίδιοςTab.Heracl.1.13, al., Schwyzer 324.4 (Delph., iv B.C.), IG9(1).333.12 (Locr., v B.C.), etc.; with spiritus asper, “ἐκ τοῦ ηιδίουJahresh.14Beibl.141 (Argos, v B.C.); “καθ᾽ ἱδίανIG22.891.6, 5(1).6 (Lacon.), 9(2).66 (Lamia), Aët.3.159, etc.; καθ᾽ ἱδδίαν prob. in IG9(2).461.26 (Thess.).)


OED

1891 R.W. LOWE T. Betterton iii. 60 The Cockpit in Drury Lane..a small theatre, one of those which, before the Civil War, were called ‘Private Houses’. In these the performances took place by candlelight, whereas the larger, or public playhouses, being partly open to the weather, were used only in daylight.


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