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ἀργίᾱ

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀργίᾱ ἀργίας

Structure: ἀργι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: = a)ergi/a

Sense

  1. lack of employment or use, idleness, laziness
  2. (in a good sense) rest, leisure
  3. (in the plural) used to express the Latin fēriae

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ὡσ δὲ αὐτῷ πάντα ἕτοιμα ἦν, κατηγόρει τῶν ἀργιῶν ὡσ παρανόμων καὶ τοὺσ ὑπάτουσ Κορνήλιον Σύλλαν καὶ Κόιντον Πομπήιον ἐκέλευεν αὐτὰσ αὐτίκα ἀναιρεῖν, ἵνα προθείη τὴν δοκιμασίαν τῶν νόμων. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 1, chapter 7 2:2)
  • ἐν ὀκνηρίαισ ταπεινωθήσεται ἡ δόκωσισ, καὶ ἐν ἀργίᾳ χειρῶν στάξει ἡ οἰκία. (Septuagint, Liber Ecclesiastes 10:18)
  • ἔμβαλε αὐτὸν εἰσ ἐργασίαν. ἵνα μὴ ἀργῇ, πολλὴν γὰρ κακίαν ἐδίδαξεν ἡ ἀργία. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 33:28)
  • ἀλλὰ μὴν καὶ ἐν τῷ τῶν Ἐπικουρείων βίῳ γενόμενοσ αὖθισ παρὰ τῇ Καλυψοῖ, ὅτε αὐτῷ ὑπῆρχεν ἐν ἀργίᾳ τε βιοτεύειν καὶ τρυφᾶν καὶ βινεῖν τὴν Ἄτλαντοσ θυγατέρα καὶ κινεῖν πάσασ τὰσ λείασ κινήσεισ, . (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 10:8)
  • Οὐκοῦν τοῦτο, ὦ Λυκῖνε, φήσ, ὡσ οὐ φιλοσοφητέον ἡμῖν, ἀλλὰ χρὴ ἀργίᾳ παραδιδόντασ αὑτοὺσ ἰδιώτασ καταβιῶναι; (Lucian, 106:1)
  • τελευτήσαντοσ δὲ Ἀντιγόνου καταφρονήσαντεσ Αἰτωλοὶ τῶν Ἀχαιῶν διὰ τὴν ῥᾳθυμίαν ἐθισθέντεσ γὰρ ἀλλοτρίαισ σώζεσθαι χερσὶ καὶ τοῖσ Μακεδόνων ὅπλοισ αὑτοὺσ ὑπεσταλκότεσ ἐν ἀργίᾳ πολλῇ καὶ ἀταξίᾳ διῆγον ἐπέθεντο τοῖσ κατὰ Πελοπόννησον πράγμασι· (Plutarch, Aratus, chapter 47 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. rest

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