Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

περιεργάζομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: περιεργάζομαι περιεργάσομαι περιείργασμαι

Structure: περι (Prefix) + ἐργάζ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to take more pains than enough about, to waste one's labour on, that they had overdone it, word), is there any superfluity
  2. to be a busybody, meddle with other folk's affairs

Conjugation

Present tense

Future tense

Imperfect tense

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

  • τὸ γὰρ περιεργάζεσθαι καὶ διατρίβειν ἐν αὐτοῖσ ἐνδόξοισ οὖσι, τοῦτο ἀπάγει τὸν λόγον ἀπὸ τοῦ τύπου τοῦ ἀρχαίου. (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , chapter 13 22:26)
  • εἰ μὲν γὰρ ἡσυχίαν ἔχειν ὑμῖν ἀπέχρη καὶ μηδὲν τῶν Ἑλληνικῶν περιεργάζεσθαι ὅπωσ ἔχει, ἄλλοσ ἂν ἦν λόγοσ· (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 8:2)
  • ὁ Ἑρμῆσ καταβὰσ ἔμελλεν αὐτῷ λέγειν ταῦτα καὶ σοὶ νῦν λέγουσιν οἱ θεοὶ ταῦτα Ἑρμείαν πέμψαντεσ διάκτορον ἀργειφόντην μὴ ἐκστρέφειν τὰ καλῶσ ἔχοντα μηδὲ περιεργάζεσθαι, ἀλλ’ ἀφεῖναι τὸν ἄνδρα ἄνδρα, τὴν γυναῖκα γυναῖκα, τὸν καλὸν ἄνθρωπον ὡσ καλὸν ἄνθρωπον, τὸν αἰσχρὸν ὡσ ἄνθρωπον αἰσχρόν. (Epictetus, Works, book 3, 39:1)
  • ἐγὼ δ’ οὖν πέμπων καὶ τάττων ἐμαυτὸν εἰσ τοὺσ οἰκεῖον τὸ συμβεβηκὸσ νομίζοντασ οὐκ ἄν μοι περιεργάζεσθαι δοκῶ. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 1:3)
  • οὐδὲ γὰρ αὐτὸσ περιεργάζεσθαι τῶν κατὰ τὴν Ἰταλίαν ἁπλῶσ οὐδέν. (Polybius, Histories, book 18, chapter 51 2:2)

Derived

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

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