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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

  • ταῦτά σοι, ὦ ἑταῖρε, καίτοι ἐν μυρίαισ ταῖσ ἀσχολίαισ ὢν ὅμωσ ἀπελογησάμην, οὐκ ἐν παρέργῳ θέμενοσ τὴν λευκὴν παρὰ σοῦ καὶ πλήρη μοι ἐνεχθῆναι· (Lucian, Apologia 34:4)
  • ὅμωσ δ’ οὖν οἱ παριόντεσ εἰσ τὸν νεὼν οὔτε τὸν ἐξ Ἰνδῶν ἐλέφαντα ἔτι οἰόνται ὁρᾶν οὔτε τὸ ἐκ τῆσ Θρᾴκησ μεταλλευθὲν χρυσίον ἀλλ’ αὐτὸν τὸν Κρόνου καὶ Ῥέασ, εἰσ τὴν γῆν ὑπὸ Φειδίου μετῳκισμένον καὶ τὴν Πισαίων ἐρημίαν ἐπισκοπεῖν κεκελευσμένον, ἀγαπῶντα εἰ διὰ πέντε ὅλων ἐτῶν θύσει τισ αὐτῷ πάρεργον Ὀλυμπίων. (Lucian, De sacrificiis, (no name) 11:3)
  • ἅπερ οἱ παλαιοὶ ἰδόντεσ μάλιστα μαντηίῃσιν ἐχρέοντο καὶ οὐ πάρεργον αὐτὴν ἐποιέοντο, ἀλλ’ οὔτε πόλιασ ᾤκιζον οὔτε τείχεα περιεβάλλοντο οὔτε φόνουσ ἐργάζοντο οὔτε γυναῖκασ ἐγάμεον, πρὶν ἂν δὴ πάντα μάντεων ἀκοῦσαι ἕκαστα. (Lucian, De astrologia, (no name) 23:1)
  • ἐγὼ δὲ πρὸσ τάδε ἄμφω ἐκεῖνα ἔχω εἰπεῖν, ὅτι οἱ μὲν ἀστέρεσ ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ τὴν σφετέρην εἱλέονται, πάρεργον δὲ σφίσι τῆσ κινήσιοσ τῶν κατ’ ἡμέασ ἕκαστον ἐπιγίγνεται. (Lucian, De astrologia, (no name) 29:1)
  • φημὶ γὰρ οὖν καὶ γυναιξὶ καλαῖσ οὐχ ὅπωσ συλλαμβάνειν ἐσ τὸ εὐμορφότερον, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐναντιοῦσθαι τὸν κόσμον τὸν πολύν, ὁπόταν τῶν ἐντυγχανόντων ἕκαστοσ ὑπὸ τοῦ χρυσοῦ καὶ τῶν λίθων τῶν πολυτελῶν ἐκπλαγεὶσ ἀντὶ τοῦ ἐπαινεῖν ἢ ’ χρόαν ἢ βλέμμα ἢ δειρὴν ἢ πῆχυν ἢ δάκτυλον, ὁ δὲ ταῦτ’ ἀφεὶσ ἐσ τὴν σαρδὼ ἢ τὸν σμάραγδον ἢ τὸν ὁρ́μον ἢ τὸ ψέλιον ἀποβλέπῃ, ὥστε ἄχθοιτο ἂν εἰκότωσ παρορωμένη διὰ τὸν κόσμον, οὐκ ἀγόντων σχολὴν ἐπαινεῖν αὐτὴν τῶν θεατῶν, ἀλλὰ πάρεργον αὐτῆσ ποιουμένων τὴν θέαν. (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 15:4)
  • ἐν δεξιᾷ μὲν οὖν εἰσιόντι Ἀργολικῷ μύθῳ ἀναμέμικται πάθοσ Αἰθιοπικὸν ὁ Περσεὺσ τὸ κῆτοσ φονεύει καὶ τὴν Ἀνδρομέδαν καθαιρεῖ, καὶ μετὰ μικρὸν γαμήσει καὶ ἄπεισιν αὐτὴν ἄγων πάρεργον τοῦτο τῆσ ἐπὶ Γοργόνασ πτήσεωσ. (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 22:1)

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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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