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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

  • ἐνταῦθα δ’ ἐστὶ κατὰ μέσον μάλιστα τῆσ πόλεωσ περίβολοσ λίθινοσ μῆκοσ ὡσ πεντάπλεθροσ, εὖροσ δὲ πηχῶν ρ, ἔχων διπλᾶσ πύλασ, ἐν ᾧ βωμόσ ἐστι τετράγωνοσ ἀτμήτων συλλέκτων ἀργῶν λίθων οὕτωσ συγκείμενοσ, πλευρὰν μὲν ἑκάστην εἴκοσι πηχῶν, ὕψοσ δὲ δεκάπηχυ. (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 220:1)
  • τὸ δὲ πλεῖστον αὐτῶν καὶ μάλιστα συντεταγμένον ἐχώρει πρὸσ τὴν Ἀρδεατῶν πόλιν, ἐν ᾗ διέτριβε Κάμιλλοσ ἀργῶν ταῖσ πράξεσι μετὰ τὴν φυγὴν καὶ ἰδιωτεύων, ἐλπίδασ δὲ λαμβάνων καὶ διαλογισμοὺσ οὐχὶ τὸ λαθεῖν καὶ διαφυγεῖν τοὺσ πολεμίουσ ἀγαπῶντοσ ἀνδρόσ, ἀλλ’ ὅπωσ, εἰ παραγένοιτο καιρὸσ, ἀμυνεῖται σκοποῦντοσ. (Plutarch, Camillus, chapter 23 2:1)
  • ἐκ γὰρ τούτων τῶν ἐθῶν οὔτ’ ἂν φρόνιμοσ οὐδείσ ποτε γενέσθαι τῶν ὑπὸ τὸν οὐρανὸν ἀνθρώπων ἐκ νέου ἐπιτηδεύων δύναιτο ‐ οὐχ οὕτωσ θαυμαστῇ φύσει κραθήσεται ‐ σώφρων δὲ οὐδ’ ἂν μελλήσαι ποτὲ γενέσθαι, καὶ δὴ καὶ περὶ τῆσ ἄλλησ ἀρετῆσ ὁ αὐτὸσ λόγοσ ἂν εἰή, πόλισ τε οὐδεμία ἂν ἠρεμήσαι κατὰ νόμουσ οὐδ’ οὑστινασοῦν ἀνδρῶν οἰομένων ἀναλίσκειν μὲν δεῖν πάντα εἰσ ὑπερβολάσ, ἀργῶν δὲ εἰσ ἅπαντα ἡγουμένων αὖ δεῖν γίγνεσθαι πλὴν ἐσ εὐωχίασ καὶ πότουσ καὶ ἀφροδισίων σπουδὰσ διαπονουμένασ· (Plato, Epistles, Letter 7 21:1)
  • καὶ πότερα φήσεισ γεωργὸν εἶναι τὸν ἄνθρωπον καὶ ἐργάτην ἢ τῶν ἀργῶν καὶ ῥᾳθύμων; (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 1:3)
  • ‐ Δῆλον ὅτι τῶν ἀργῶν. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 2:1)

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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