A.“ἤργησα” BGU698.4 (ii A.D.): pf. “ἤργηκα” POxy.1160.14 (iii/iv A.D.): (ἀργός, ἀεργός):—to be unemployed, do nothing, Hp.Mochl.23, E.Ph.625, X.Cyr.1.2.15, Pl.R.426a, etc.; keep Sabbath, LXX 2 Ma.5.25; “ἀ. τὴν ἑβδόμην” J.BJ7.3.3; “οἱ ἀργοῦντες” the idle, Trag.Adesp.527; “γῆ ἀργοῦσα” lying fallow, X.Cyr.1.6.11, PFlor.262.9 (iii A.D.); “ἀργῆσαν ἤμυσε στέγος” S.Fr.864; “φησὶν ἀργῆσαι τὸ ἐργαστήριον” is out of work, D.27.19; of the senses, to be at rest, “νυκτὸς τῆς ὄψεως ἀργούσης” Arist.Pr.903a21, cf. Somn.Vig.455a30: c. gen. rei, ἀργήσει . . τῆς αὑτοῦ δημιουργίας will be unoccupied in his own work, Pl.R.371c.
ἀργέω , fut. -ήσω: aor.
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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