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ἔργα^τ-ι^ς (parox.), ιδος, fem. of ἐργάτης,
A.workwoman; of the worker bees, Arist.HA627a12, Lyr.Alex.Adesp.7.12 ; “μάθε ὡς ἐ. ἐστὶν [ἡ μέλισσα]” LXXPr.6.8a ; “ἐ. βοῦς” AP9.741.
2. Adj. laborious, industrious, “γυναῖκες οὕτω ἐ.” Hdt.5.13 ; “γλῶσσαν μὲν ἀργὸν χεῖρα δ᾽ εἶχεν ἐργάτιν” S.Ph.97 ; “βιοτά” APl.1.15.6.
3. working for hire, “Μοῖσ᾽ οὔ πω ἐ. ἦν” Pi.I.2.6 ; of a courtesan, Archil.184.
II. c. gen., working at or producing, “μνήμην ἁπάντων μουσομήτορ᾽ ἐργάτιν” A.Pr. 461 (“ἐργάνην” Stob.); νέκταρος ἐ., of bees, AP9.404.8 (Antiphil.); νήματος ἠλακάτα ib.6.174 (Antip. <Sid.>); σελίδων, of poetesses, ib.9.26.8 (Antip. Thess.); Κύπριδος, of courtesans, ib.5.244.8 (Maced.) ; rare in Prose, “πόλις ἐ. τῶν ἀγαθῶν” D.H.2.76.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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