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ἀργός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀργός ἀργόν

Structure: ἀργ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: contr. from a)ergo/s (부정 접두사 a, E)/rgw)

Sense

  1. not working the ground, living without labour, inactive, slothful, idle, lazy, idle at, free from
  2. lying fallow or untilled, unemployed, yielding no return
  3. not done, left undone, among things neglected

Declension

First/Second 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

  • οὐδενὶ γὰρ αὐτῶν ψυχῆσ μέτεστιν οὕτωσ οὐκ ἐδόκει ζῷον ἕτερον ἑτέρου τῷ φρονεῖν ἀργότερον εἶναι καὶ δυσμαθέστερον, εἰ μὴ πάντα λόγου καὶ συνέσεωσ, ἄλλα δὲ μᾶλλον καὶ ἧττον ἄλλων πωσ μετεῖχεν. (Plutarch, Bruta animalia ratione uti, chapter, section 10 3:1)
  • ἀργότερον γοῦν ἀνέχασκεν, καὶ εἴ ποτε ἀναχάνοι, ταχὺ συνέμυεν. (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 2 1:4)
  • ἀνδρὶ λαμπρῷ μὲν καί πολεμικῷ, δοκοῦντι δὲ ἀργότερον ὑπὸ γήρωσ ἕπεσθαι τοῖσ καιροῖσ τοῦ πολέμου, καί ἀπολείπεσθαι τῶν πραγμάτων ἁρπαζομένων ὀξύτητι καί τάχει, τοῦ Σερτωρίου παραβόλωσ καί λῃστρικώτερον αὐτῷ προσφερομένου, καί ταράττοντοσ ἐνέδραισ καί περιδρομαῖσ ἄνδρα νομίμων ἀθλητὴν ἀγώνων καί δυνάμεωσ στασίμου καί βαρείασ ἡγεμόνα, πρὸσ ταῦτα Πομπήϊοσ ἔχων τὴν στρατιὰν ὑφ’ ἑαυτῷ διεπράττετο Μετέλλῳ πεμφθῆναι βοηθόσ· (Plutarch, Pompey, chapter 17 2:1)
  • ὃ δὲ εἶπασ ὡσ δεῖ μαθεῖν τὸν μέλλοντα ὀρθῶσ γεωργίασ ἐπιμελεῖσθαι καὶ ἃ δεῖ ποιεῖν καὶ ὡσ δεῖ καὶ ὁπότε ἕκαστα, ταῦτά μοι δοκοῦμεν, ἔφην ἐγώ, ἀργότερόν πωσ ἐπιδεδραμηκέναι τῷ λόγῳ· (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 15 7:1)
  • "νηστεύσαντασ ἀργότερον ἐσθίειν ἢ προφαγόντασ· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 1, 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. not done

Derived

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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