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ἰδίᾳ (idia)

ἰδίᾳ is an Ancient Greek form of ἴδιος, meaning “one's own, private”. It is the dative singular feminine adjective.

Found 1,259 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.19.1: … όντες πλὴν Χίων καὶ Λεσβίων, καὶ χρήματα τοῖς πᾶσι τάξαντες φέρειν. καὶ ἐγένετο αὐτοῖς ἐς τόνδε τὸν πόλεμον ἡ ἰδία παρασκευὴ μείζων ἢ ὡς τὰ κράτιστά ποτε μετὰ ἀκραιφνοῦς τῆς ξυμμαχίας ἤνθησαν.

Lucian of Samosata, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit 49: … ἄρτι μὲν τὴν τῶν ἱπποπόλων Θρῃκῶν γῆν ὁρῶντι, ἄρτι δὲ τὴν Μυσῶν—κατὰ ταὐτὰ γὰρ καὶ αὐτὸς ἄρτι μὲν τὰ Ῥωμαίων ἴδιᾳ ὁράτω καὶ δηλούτω ἡμῖν οἷα ἐφαίνετο αὐτῷ ἀφ' ὑψηλοῦ ὁρῶντι, ἄρτι δὲ τὰ Περσῶν, εἶτ' ἀμφότερα εἰ μάχοιντο. καὶ …

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Dinarcho 7: … ραγμάτων τὸ εὔκαιρον, τῆς δὲ κατασκευῆς τὸ μὴ τραγικὸν μηδὲ ὀγκῶδες ἔχῃ (ταῦτα γὰρ μέγιστα ἐκείνου τοῦ ἀνδρὸς ἴδιά ἐστιν), Ὑπερείδου λεγέτω. ἐὰν δὲ ἐνδεεστέρως ἐν αὐτοῖς τούτοις ἔχῃ, κἂν τὰ ἄλλα πάντα μὴ φαύλως ᾖ γεγραμμένα, …

All forms of ἴδιος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.