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πάρεργον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: πάρεργον πάρεργου

Structure: παρεργ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. a bye-work, subordinate or secondary business, appendage, appendix, a secondary purpose, an unhappy addition to, things useless to remedy, as a bye-work, as subordinate or secondary, as a bye-work

Declension

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

  • οὐ γὰρ ἕν τι ἦν ὥσπερ ὁ οἶνοσ, ᾧπερ σὺ αὐτὴν ἀπεικάζεισ ἀξιῶν ὁμοίαν εἶναι τῷ γεύματι, τὸ δὲ ἑτεροῖόν τι ὤφθη οὐ παρέργου τῆσ ἐξετάσεωσ δεόμενον. (Lucian, 125:4)
  • "τεκμήριον δ’ ἰσχυρὸν εἶναι τὸ πάντασ ἀνθρώπουσ, ὅταν ἐξουσίασ ἐπιλάβωνται μέγεθοσ ἀξιόχρεων ἐχούσησ, ἐπὶ τὰσ σωματικὰσ ἡδονὰσ καταφέρεσθαι καὶ τοῦτο νομίζειν τέλοσ εἶναι τῆσ ἐξουσίασ, τὰ δὲ ἄλλα πάντα σχεδὸν ἁπλῶσ εἰπεῖν ἐν παρέργου τίθεσθαι χώρᾳ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 64 1:3)
  • τοὺσ δ’ ἐκ παρέργου προσιόντασ ἀναμίγνυσθαι τῇ συνηθείᾳ οὐκ ἠθέλησεν. (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 173:2)
  • "εἰ μὲν γὰρ ἐκ παρέργου περὶ αὐτῶν εἰρήκεσαν, τάχ’ ἄν τισ διέσυρε τὸν τόπον τοῦτον· (Plutarch, De Stoicorum repugnantiis, section 24 2:1)
  • ἀλλ’ οἱ μὲν ὅλωσ ἀφεστᾶσιν, οἱ δ’ ἐκ παρέργου προσίασιν ἁπτόμενοι μόνον τοῦ πράγματοσ, ὥσπερ οἱ σπονδῆσ θιγγάνοντεσ, οὐκ ἀσφαλὲσ εἶναι λέγοντεσ ἀναθεῖναι αὑτοὺσ πολιτείᾳ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 44:2)

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

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