Meaning citizens. Thus Thucydides [sc. uses the word].[1]
But Aristophanes in Frogs calls one's own people i)diw/tas: "towards strangers and our own people."[2] By derivation i)/dios [gives] i)diw/ths. *)idiw/ths is what they call a person who is of one's own kin, and also an uneducated person.[3] And in Wealth he calls i)diwtiko/n ["belonging to a private person"] i)/dion ["one's own"].[4]