ἀργία, ἡ,
={ἀεργία}, want of employment, πεσσοὺς κύβους τε, τερπνὸν ἀργίας ἄκος[[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 479.4; νεύρων καὶ ἄρθρων 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Mochl.” 23; τοῦ καλοῦ 5th c.AD: Hierocles Platonicus Philosophus “in Carmen Aureum - FPG” 19p.461M.; ψυχῆς ἀργίη 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 212] Refs 5th c.BC+]; idleness, laziness, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 592] Refs 5th c.BC+]; νόμος περὶ τῆς ἀργίας against those who would not work, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 57.32; γραφὴ ἀργίας “Anecdota Graeca - Bekker” 310, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Solon” 17, 31: in _plural_, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 7.44. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__b quietism, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 296. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 in good sense, rest, leisure, τῶν οἰκείων ἔργων from.., [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 761a (_plural_), LXX.Wis.13.13, etc. ] LXX+5th c.BC+]
__3 in plural, holidays, [[ 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 4.8.33] Refs 2nd c.AD+], = feriae or justitium, [[ 2nd c.AD: Appianus Historicus “Bella Civilia” 1.56, “PPetr.” 3] Refs 2nd c.AD+]: singular, of the Sabbath, [[ LXX.Isa.1.14. ] LXX]
__4 lapse of cultivation, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 4.5.6.] Refs 4th c.BC+]