ἀργός, όν,
__Blater ή, όν [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1167a11, “Mete.” 352a13, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Lapidibus” 27, 2nd c.BC: Athenaeus Mechanicus 12.11, etc.: (_contraction_ from ἀεργός)] Refs 4th c.BC+]:—properly not working the ground, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.6] Refs 5th c.BC+]; idle, lazy, opposed to ἐργάτις, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 97, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 53, etc.; γαστέρες ἀ. 6th c.BC: Epimenides Philosophus 1; ἀ. ἐπιθυμίαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 572e] Refs 6th c.BC+]; ἀ. τὴν διάνοιαν[[ [prev. work] 458a; τὸ πρὸς ἅπαν ξυνετὸν ἐπὶ πᾶν ἀ. 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.82] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἂν ἀ. ᾖ if he have no trade, [[ 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 123.3; πότερον ἀνθρώπου οὐδέν ἐστιν [ἔργον] ἀλλ᾽ ἀργὸν πέφυκε; 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1097b30] Refs 4th c.BC+]: with genitive of things, idle at a thing, free from it, τῶν οἴκοθεν from domestic toils, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 1000; πόνων σφοδρῶν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 835d; γυναῖκας ἀργοὺς ταλασίας [prev. work] 806a] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀ. αἰσχρῶν slow to evil, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 411; ἀργότεραι ἐς τὸ δρᾶν τι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.67; ἀ. περί τι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 966d. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.2 of things, δόρυ[[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 1387 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of money, lying idle, yielding no return, opposed to ἐνεργός, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 27.7] Refs 4th c.BC+] and 20; of land, lying fallow, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.132, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.2.19, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 9.12.2] Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to πεφυτευμένος, [[ “IG” 7.2226 B (Thisbe, 3rd c.AD)] Refs 3rd c.AD+]; διατριβὴ ἀ. in which nothing is done, fruitless, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1498 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.44; χρόνον ἀργὸν διάγειν 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Coriolanus” 31] Refs 5th c.BC+]. adverb ἀργῶς, ἐπιμέλεσθαι[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.4.7; ἔχειν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 6.3: _comparative_ and _superlative_ ἀργότερον, -ότατα, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 15.6 and 1. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]