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ἔργον,
Doric dialect ϝέργον [[“IG” 4.800 (6th c.BC)] Refs 6th c.BC+], Elean ϝάργον [[“SIG” 9 (6th c.BC), τό: (ἔρδω, O 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus ] Refs 6th c.BC+] weorc (neuter) 'work', Avest. var[schwa]za-):— work, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.436, etc.; ἔ. οὐδὲν ὄνειδος, ἀεργίη δέ τ᾽ ὄνειδος {8-7th c.BC}: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 311; πλεόνων δέ τε ἔ. ἄμεινον 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.412; ἔ. ἐποίχεσθαι 6.492; νῦν ἔπλετο ἔ. ἅπασι 12.271 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; especially in plural, [[ ἄλλος ἄλλοισιν..ἐπιτέρπεται ἔργοις 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.228; ἐπὶ ἔργα τράποντο 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.422; ἔργων παύσασθαι 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.683 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; τὰ σ᾽ αὐτῆς ἔργα κόμιζε see to thine own tasks, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.490: especially in the following relations, ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__1 in [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” mostly of ] Refs 8th c.BC+]works or deeds of war, [[ πολεμήϊα ἔ. 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.338, +others, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.116; ἔργον μάχης 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.522; alone, ἀτελευτήτῳ ἐπὶ ἔργῳ 4.175, compare 539; ὑπέσχετο δὲ μέγα ἔργον 13.366; ἐπ᾽ αὐτῷ δ᾽ ἔργον ἐτύχθη ἀργαλέον 4.470; later, ἔργον.. Ἄρης κρινεῖ Aeschylus Tragicus [{4-5th c.BC}] “Septem contra Thebas” 414 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐν τῷ ἔ. during the action, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.89, compare 7.71; τὸ ἐν Πλαταιαῖς ἔ. Plato Philosophus [{5-6th c.BC}] “Menexenus” 241c; τῶν πρότερον ἔ. μέγιστον ἐπράχθη τὸ Μηδικόν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.23 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; ἔργου ἔχεσθαι to engage in battle, [[[prev. work] 49. ] Refs]
__2 of peaceful contests, [[ κρατεῖν ἔ. 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 9.85; ἔργου ἔχεσθαι [prev\. author] “P.” 4.233 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also ἔργα θῆκε κάλλιστ᾽ ἀμφὶ κόμαις placed [the reward of] noble deeds about his hair, [[ [prev\. author] “O.” 13.38. ] Refs]
__3 of works of industry,
__3.a of tillage, tilled lands, [[ ἀνδρῶν πίονα ἔ. 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.283, etc.; ἔργ᾽ ἀνθρώπων 16.392, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.259; βροτῶν 10.147 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; οὔτε βοῶν οὔτ᾽ ἀνδρῶν φαίνετο ἔργα [[[prev. work] 98; ἔργα alone, 16.140, etc.; Ἔργα καὶ Ἡμέραι] Refs] —the title of Hesiod's work; πατρώϊα ἔ. their father's lands, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.22; οὔτ᾽ ἐπὶ ἔργα..ἴμεν] Refs 8th c.BC+] will neither go to our farms, [[[prev. work] 127, compare 252; Ἰθάκης..ἔργα] Refs] the tilled lands of Ithaca, [[ 14.344; ἀμφὶ.. Τιταρησσὸν ἔργ᾽ ἐνέμοντο] Refs] inhabited lands, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.751; τὰ τῶν Μυσῶν ἔ. 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.36; so later, “PBaden” 40.5 (2nd c.AD)] Refs 8th c.BC+]: generally, property, wealth, possessions, [[ θεὸς δ᾽ ἐπὶ ἔργον ἀέξῃ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.65, compare 15.372. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__3.b of women's work, weaving, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.390, etc.; ἀμύμονα ἔ. ἰδυίας [prev. work] 128; ἔργα ἐργάζεσθαι 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.422, 20.72 ] Refs 8th c.BC+].
__3.c of other occupations, θαλάσσια ἔ. fishing, [[ 5.67; a seaman's life, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.614: periphrastic, δαιτὸς..ἔργα] Refs 8th c.BC+] works of feasting, [[ 9.228; φιλοτήσια ἔ. 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.246; ἔργα γάμοιο 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.429; ἔργα Κυπρογενοῦς 6th c.BC: Solon Lyricus 26; Ἀφροδίτης “hymnus ad Venerem” 1; also τέκνων ἐς ἔ. Aeschylus Tragicus [{4-5th c.BC}] “Agamemnon” 1207 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: absolutely, [[ ἔργον 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “DDeor.” 17.1, “AP” 12.209 (_plural_, 2nd c.AD: Strato Epigrammaticus, assuming variant); also ἔργα ἰσχύος καὶ τάχους Xenophon Historicus [{5-6th c.BC}] “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.2.12 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; φίλα ἔργα μελίσσαις, of flowers, [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 22.42 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; of mines, etc., [[ ἔ. ἀργυρεῖα Xenophon Historicus [{5-6th c.BC}] “de Vectigalibus” 4.5, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.167, etc.; ἔργα πίσσια uncertain reading in 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Cat.Ma.” 21. ] Refs 6th c.BC+]
__4 deed, action, [[ ἔργ᾽ ἀνδρῶν τε θεῶν τε 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.338; θέσκελα ἔ. Τρώων 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.130; ἀήσυλα ἔ. 5.876 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; καρτερά, ἀεικέα ἔ., [[[prev. work] 872, 22.395; παλίντιτα, ἄντιτα ἔ., 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.379, 17.51; ἔργα ἀποδέκνυσθαι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.16, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Alc.” 1.119e, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 37.52; opposed to ἔπος,] Refs 8th c.BC+] deed, not word (see. [[ ἔπος 11.1); opposed to μῦθος, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.443, 19.242, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Pr.” 1080 (_anapaest meter_), etc.; opposed to λόγος, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “El.” 358, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alc.” 339; ἔργῳ, opposed to λόγῳ, frequently in _Attic dialect_, etc., 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.65, etc.: so in _plural_, λόγῳ μὲν..τοῖσι δ᾽ ἔργοισιν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 782, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “fragment” 360.13; λόγοισιν εἴτ᾽ ἔργοισιν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 517 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; opposed to ῥήματα, [[ [prev\. author] “OC” 873; opposed to ὄνομα, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “IA” 128 (_anapaest meter_), 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.78, 89; in many phrases, πέπρακται τοὔργον Aeschylus Tragicus [{4-5th c.BC}] “Prometheus Vinctus” 75, compare “Ag.” 1346; χωρῶ πρὸς ἔργον 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 116 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ μὲν ἐνθύμημα χαρίεν.., τὸ δὲ ἔ. ἀδύνατον its execution, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “An.” 3.5.12; ἐν ἔργῳ χέρνιβες ξίφος τε] Refs 5th c.BC+] ready for action, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “IT” 1190; ἡ κατάρα ὑπὸ τοῦ δαίμονος εἰς ἔ. ἤγετο 4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Orationes” 7.228b ] Refs 5th c.BC+].
__II thing, matter, πᾶν ἔ...ὑπείξομαι in every point, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.294; ἃ Ζεὺς μήδετο ἔ. 2.38, etc.; πάρος τάδε ἔ. γενέσθαι 6.348, etc.; ὅπως ἔσται τάδε ἔ. 2.252, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.78, etc.; μέμνημαι τόδε ἔ. 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.527; ἄκουε τοὔργον 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1157, compare “OT” 847, “Aj.” 466 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; in bad sense, mischief, trouble, of disease, [[ αἰτίη τοῦ ἔ. 2nd c.AD: Aretaeus Medicus “περὶ αἰτιῶν καὶ σημείων ὀξέων παθῶν” 1.9 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; μέγα ἔ. a serious matter, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.663, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.3. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__II.2 μέγα ἔ., like{μέγα χρῆμα}, χερμάδιον λάβε χειρὶ Τυδεΐδης, μέγα ἔ. a monstrous thing, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.303, compare 20.286; φυλόπιδος μέγα ἔ.] Refs 8th c.BC+] a mighty call to arms, [[ 16.208. ] Refs]
__III passive, that which is wrought or made, work, οἷ᾽ ἐπιεικὲς ἔργ᾽ ἔμεν ἀθανάτων, of the arms of Achilles, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.22; ἔ. Ἡφαίστοιο] Refs 8th c.BC+] metal-work, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.617; πέπλοι.., ἔργα γυναικῶν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.289, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 7.97, compare 10.223; ὕφασμα, σῆς ἔ. χερός Aeschylus Tragicus [{4-5th c.BC}] “Choephori” 231; κολεόν..λώτινον ἔ. 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 24.45 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of a wall, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Av.” 1125 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of a statue, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Mem.” 3.10.7: in _plural_ ] Refs 5th c.BC+], of siege-works, [[ ἔ. καὶ μηχαναί 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.3.6 ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; of a machine, [[ 2nd c.AD: Apollodorus Damascenus Mechanicus “Poliorc.” 157.4, +others, 2nd c.BC: Athenaeus Mechanicus 15.2 ] Refs 2nd c.BC+], +others; of public buildings, [[ Mon.Anc.Gr. 18.20 ] Refs]; of an author's works, [[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 25; τὸ περὶ ψυχῆς ἔργον Ἀριστοτέλους “AP” 11.354.8 (6th c.AD: Agathias Historicus et Epigrammaticus). ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__III.2 result of work, profit or interest, ἔργον [χρημάτων] interest or profit on money, [[ 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 11.42, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 27.10. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__IV.1.a with genitive person, it is his business, his proper work, [[ ἀνδρῶν τόδ᾽ ἐστὶν ἔ. Aeschylus Tragicus [{4-5th c.BC}] “Choephori” 673; ὅπερ ἐστὶν ἔ. ἀγαθοῦ πολίτου Plato Philosophus [{5-6th c.BC}] “Gorgias” 517c ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; of things, φραδέος νόου ἔργα τέτυκται it is a matter (which calls) for a wary mind, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.354 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; function, [[ ἅπερ νεῶν ἄμεινον πλεουσῶν ἔργα ἐστίν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.89; οὐ θερμότητος ἔργον ψύχειν Plato Philosophus [{5-6th c.BC}] “Respublica” 335d ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; τοῦτο ἑκάστου ἔ. ὃ ἂν ἢ μόνον τι ἢ κάλλιστα τῶν ἄλλων ἀπεργάζηται [[[prev. work] 353a; ἔργα τοῦ ἐγκεφάλου _functions,_ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 16.518 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]: with dative person, [[ οἷς τοῦτο ἔ. ἦν Xenophon Historicus [{5-6th c.BC}] “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.5.36, compare 6.3.27: with the possessive _pronoun_, σὸν ἔ. [ἐστί]] Refs 6th c.BC+] with infinitive, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Pr.” 635; ἐμὸν τόδ᾽ ἔ. κρῖναι [prev\. author] “Eu.” 734; σὸν ἔ., θῦε θεοῖς Aristophanes Comicus [{5-6th c.BC}] “Aves” 862; ὑμέτερον ἐντεῦθεν ἔ. [prev\. author] “Pax” 426 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]: with Article, [[ νῦν ἡμέτερον τὸ ἔ. 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.1 ] Refs 5th c.BC+].
__IV.1.b with genitive of things, there is need of.., [[ τί δῆτα τόξων ἔ.; 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 39; πολλῆς φυλακῆς ἔ. [ἐστί] Plato Philosophus [{5-6th c.BC}] “Respublica” 537d ] Refs 6th c.BC+]: especially with negative, [[ οὐδὲν..ὀδόντων ἔ. ἐστ᾽ Aristophanes Comicus [{5-6th c.BC}] “Pax” 1310; οὐ δόλου νῦν ἔ. [prev\. author] “Pl.” 1158, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hipp.” 911: with _dative_ _person_, ἐπέδρης μὴ εἶναι ἔ. τῇ στρατιῇ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.17 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]: with Article, [[ οὐκ ἂν μακρῶν λόγων ἡμῖν τόδ᾽ εἴη τοὔργον 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1373 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: with a participle added, [[ οὐδὲν ἦν ἔ. αὐτοῦ κατατείνοντος Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus [{1-2nd c.AD}] “Publicola” 13 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]: also with infinitive, οὐδὲν ἔ. ἑστάναι there is no use in standing still, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lys.” 424, compare “Av.” 1308; οὐδὲν ἔ. ταῦτα θρηνεῖσθαι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 852, compare 12. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__IV.1.c with infinitive, it is hard work, difficult to do, [[ πολὺ ἔ. ἂν εἴη διεξελθεῖν Xenophon Historicus [{5-6th c.BC}] “Memorabilia” 4.6.1; πολὺ ἔ. ἦν τῷ νομοθέτῃ πάντα γράφειν 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 10.7; ἔ. ἐστὶν εἰ ἐροῦμεν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 24.51; ἔ. εὑρεῖν πρόφασιν Menander Comicus [{4-3rd c.BC}] 76; also μέγα ἔ. ταῖς..ἐπιθυμίαις καλῶς χρῆσθαι Plato Philosophus [{5-6th c.BC}] “Symposium” 187e; χαλεπὸν ἔ. διαιρεῖν Aristophanes Comicus [{5-6th c.BC}] “Ranae” 1100 ] Refs 6th c.BC+] (Lyric poetry): also in genitive, [[ πλείονος ἔ. ἐστὶ..μαθεῖν Plato Philosophus [{5-6th c.BC}] “Euthyphro” 14b ] Refs 6th c.BC+]: rarely with a participle, [[ οὐδὲν ἔ. μαχομένῳ Philippides Comicus [{4-3rd c.BC}] 15.3 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; ἔ. [ἐστί] with accusative et infinitive, it can scarcely happen that.., [[ ἔ. ἅμα πάντας ὀργισθῆναι καὶ ἁμαρτεῖν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1286a35 ] Refs 4th c.BC+].
__IV.2 ἔργον παρασχεῖν τινί give one trouble, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nu.” 523, compare “AP” 9.161 (Marc. argument, punning on Hesiod's Ἔργα); ἔργον ἔχειν] Refs 5th c.BC+] take trouble, with participle, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cyr.” 8.4.6 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; with infinitive, [[ [prev\. author] “Mem.” 2.10.6. ] Refs]
__IV.3 ἔ. γίγνεσθαι τῆς νόσου to be its victim, [[ Anonymus cited in 10th c.AD: Suidas Legal icographus see at {ἄτολμοι}; κτεινόμενος ὑμέτερον ἔ. εἰμί Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus [{1-2nd c.AD}] “Eumenes” 17; τῆς ὑμετέρας γέγονεν ἔ. ὀλιγωρίας 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Dem.Enc.” 29 ] Refs 1st c.AD+].
__IV.4 ἔ. ποιεῖσθαί τι to make a matter one's business, attend to it, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phdr.” 232a, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Hier.” 9.10; so ἐν ἔργῳ τίθεσθαι Aelianus [{2-3rd c.AD}] “Varia Historia” 4.15 ] Refs 5th c.BC+].
__V ={ἐργασία} III, [[ τὸ ἔ. βαφέων “CIG” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” 3498 (from Thyatira). ] Refs]
