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ἀργία , ἡ,
A.= ἀεργία, want of employment, “πεσσοὺς κύβους τε, τερπνὸν ἀργίας ἄκος” S.Fr.479.4; “νεύρων καὶ ἄρθρων” Hp.Mochl.23; “τοῦ καλοῦ” Hierocl.in CA19p.461M.; “ψυχῆς ἀργίη” Democr.212; idleness, laziness, E.HF592; νόμος περὶ τῆς ἀργίας against those who would not work, D.57.32; “γραφὴ ἀργίας” AB310, cf. Plu.Sol.17,31: in pl., Isoc. 7.44.
b. quietism, E.Med.296.
2. in good sense, rest, leisure, τῶν οἰκείων ἔργων from . . , Pl.Lg.761a (pl.), LXX Wi.13.13, etc.
3. in pl., holidays, Arr.Epict.4.8.33, = feriae or justitium, App.BC1.56, PPetr.3: sg., of the Sabbath, LXXIs.1.14.
4. lapse of cultivation, Thphr.CP4.5.6.
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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    • Demosthenes, Against Eubulides, 32
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    • Plato, Laws, 761a
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