ἐργᾰσ-ία,
Ionic dialect -ιη, Cretan dialect ϝεργασία [[“Leg.Gort.” 8.44, ἡ, (ἐργάτης)] Refs] work, business, [[ ἐργασίην φεύγουσα “hymnus ad Mercurium” 486 ] Refs], etc.; opposed to ἀργία, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Mem.” 2.7.7; ἐ. ἀγαθή] Refs 5th c.BC+] productive labour, [[ [prev\. author] “Vect.” 4.29; ἐργασίᾳ ἐγχειρεῖν, of bees, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “HA” 625b24; ἡ περὶ τὴν θάλατταν ἐ., of seamen, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “R.” 371b; μὴ γενομένης ἐργασίας] Refs 5th c.BC+] if no work was done, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 27.20; δὸς ἐργασίαν,] Refs 4th c.BC+] with infinitive, Latin da operam ut.., NT.Luke.12.58, compare [[“OGI” 441.109 (_SC. de Stratonicensibus,_ 1st c.BC): _plural_, τὰς ἐν ὑπαίθρῳ ἐ. ἐργάζεσθαι Xenophon Historicus [{5-6th c.BC}] “Oeconomicus” 7.20; ἐ. ἀνελεύθεροι 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1121b33, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “fragment” 196 (uncertain). ] Refs 6th c.BC+]
__2 function, [[ ἥπατος 2nd c.AD: Aretaeus Medicus “περὶ αἰτιῶν καὶ σημείων χρονίων παθῶν” 1.15 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+].
__II working at, making, manufacture, ἱματίων, ὑποδημάτων, etc., [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Grg.” 449d, “Tht.” 146d, etc.; ἡ τῆς ἐσθῆτος ἐκ τῶν ἐρίων ἐ. Xenophon Historicus [{5-6th c.BC}] “Oeconomicus” 7.21 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; making up of a prescription, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Ulc.” 14: _metaphorically_, Πέργαμος ἀμφὶ τεαῖς χερὸς ἐργασίαις ἁλίσκεται Troy is (i.e. is doomed to be)] Refs 5th c.BC+] taken in the part wrought by thy hands, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 8.42; ἐ. ἡδονῆς] Refs 5th c.BC+] production of pleasure, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Prt.” 353d; ἐ. χρημάτων] Refs 5th c.BC+] money-making, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “EN” 1160a16 (but _administration_ of property, “Leg.Gort.” [same place]). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]