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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

  • ἦν δὲ καὶ περὶ τἆλλα χρηματιστὴσ ἀργότεροσ, εὐδάπανοσ δὲ καὶ ἀφειδὴσ ἐκ τῶν ὑπαρχόντων, οὐ πολλὰ δ’ ἦν, ἀλλὰ καὶ φερνῆσ ὀφειλομένησ τῇ γυναικὶ μετὰ τὸν θάνατον αὐτοῦ γλίσχρωσ ἐξήρκεσεν. (Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus, chapter 4 3:1)
  • τῶν δὲ παθῶν παντάπασιν ἀναιρεθέντων, εἰ καὶ δυνατόν ἐστιν, ἐν πολλοῖσ ἀργότεροσ; (Plutarch, De virtute morali, section 12 18:1)
  • τῶν δὲ παθῶν παντάπασιν ἀναιρεθέντων, εἰ καὶ δυνατόν ἐστιν, ἐν πολλοῖσ ἀργότεροσ ὁ λόγοσ καὶ ἀμβλύτεροσ, ὥσπερ κυβερνήτησ πνεύματοσ ἐπιλείποντοσ. (Plutarch, De virtute morali, section 12 6:1)
  • Ἄρατοσ μὲν γὰρ, ἀργότεροσ εἶναι δοκῶν πρὸσ τοὺσ πολεμικοὺσ ἀγῶνασ, ὁμιλίᾳ καὶ πρᾳότητι καὶ φιλίαισ βασιλικαῖσ τὰ πλεῖστα κατειργάσατο τῶν πραγμάτων, ὡσ ἐν τοῖσ περὶ ἐκείνου γέγραπται, Φιλοποίμην δὲ ἀγαθὸσ πολεμιστὴσ ὢν καὶ διὰ τῶν ὅπλων ἐνεργόσ, ἔτι δ’ εὐτυχὴσ καὶ κατορθωτικὸσ εὐθὺσ ἐν ταῖσ πρώταισ γενόμενοσ μάχαισ, ἅμα τῇ δυνάμει τὸ φρόνημα τῶν Ἀχαιῶν ηὔξησε νικᾶν ἐθισθέντων μετ’ αὐτοῦ καὶ κατευτυχεῖν ἐν τοῖσ πλείστοισ ἀγῶσι. (Plutarch, Philopoemen, chapter 8 4:1)
  • διὸ καὶ πρὸσ τὰσ συνουσίασ ἀργότεροσ ἦν ὀξὺσ δὲ καὶ θυμοειδὴσ ἅπερ ἐστὶ σωματικῆσ θερμότητοσ. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 1, 3:2)

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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