Book 6
93
But Proxenus, in the second book of his treatise on the Lacedæmonian Constitution, says that female servants are called among the Lacedæmonians, Chalcides. But Ion of Chios, in his Laertes, uses the word οἰκέτης as synonymous with δοῦλος, and says— Alas, O servant, go on wings and close The house lest any man should enter in. And Achæus, in his Omphale, speaking of the Satyr, says— How rich in slaves (εὔδουλος) and how well housed he was (εὔοικος); using, however, in my opinion, the words εὔδουλος and εὔοικος in a peculiar sense, as meaning rather, good to his slaves and servants, taking εὔοικος from οἰκέτης. And it is generally understood that an οἰκέτης is a servant whose business is confined to the house, and that it is possible he may be a freeborn man.
