ἐργᾰτ-ης, ου, ὁ,
workman, Hermes [[ 17.5 (from Delos), “NT.Mat.10.10”] NT], etc.; especially one who works the soil, husbandman, [[ γῆς ἐ. 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.109, 5.6; οἱ ἐ. οἱ περὶ γεωργίαν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 35.32 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: absolutely, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “OT” 859, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “El.” 75 ] Refs 5th c.BC+], etc.: also with substantive, [[ ἐ. ἀνήρ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 10.9, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 59.50; οὑργάτης λεώς] Refs 4th c.BC+] the country-folk, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 632 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of animals, βοῦς ἐ. a working ox, [[ 7th c.BC: Archilochus Lyricus 39, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “fragment” 563; ἐ. σφῆκες 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 627b32 ] Refs 7th c.BC+]; also ἐ. θαλάττης, of a fisher, [[ 4th c.AD: Alciphro Epistolographus 1.11; ἐ. λίθων] Refs 4th c.AD+] a stone-mason, [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Somn.” 2. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__b in the religious sense, [[ NT.2Tim.2.15, “NT.2Cor.11.13” (_plural_). ] NT]
__2 adjective hard-working, strenuous, [[ ἐ. στρατηγός Xenophon Historicus [{5-6th c.BC}] “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.6.18; σώφρων κἀ. Aristophanes Comicus [{5-6th c.BC}] “Acharnenses” 611 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; opposed to ἀργός, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthd.” 281c; φειδωλὸς καὶ ἐ. [prev\. author] “R.” 554a ] Refs 5th c.BC+].
__II one who practises an art, [[ τῶν ἐν πολέμῳ Xenophon Historicus [{5-6th c.BC}] “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.1.4 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; ἐ. δίκης, of a judge, [[ 3rd c.BC: Lycophron Tragicus 128: _absolutely_ ] Refs 3rd c.BC+], practitioner in some special branch of surgery, e.g. lithotomy, [[ ἐ. ἄνδρες 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Jusj.” ] Refs 5th c.BC+]