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ἀσχολ-έω ,
A.engage, occupy, “τινά” Luc.Zeux.7:—Med., impf. ἠσχολεῖτο (v. infr.): fut. “-ήσομαι” M.Ant.12.2, Aristid.1.423 J.; “-ηθήσομαι” LXX Si.39.1: pf. “ἠσχόλημαι” D.C.71.10: aor. “ἠσχολησάμην” Gal.7.657, and “-ήθην” D.S.4.32, Luc.Macr.8:—to be occupied, busy, Alex. 205, Men.999, Epicur.Fr.204, etc.; “ἀσχολούμεθα ἵνα σχολάζωμεν” Arist.EN1177b4; περί or ἐπί τι, D.S.2.40,17.94; “πρός τινας” Aristid. l. c., cf. 2.178J.: c. part., “λαλῶν ἠσχολεῖτο” Alex.261.12, etc.: c. acc. cogn., “ἀ. ἀσχολίας ἀνωφελεῖς” D.Chr.47.23; exercise a function, POxy.44.7,23 (i A.D.).
II. Act. intr., in same sense as Med., Arist.Pol.1333a41, 1338a4, Philem.220; to be engaged in one's own business, Arist.Pol.1299b33.—Not used in the best Att. ἀσχόλ-ημα , ατος, τό, business, engagement, Str.10.3.9 (pl.), Iamb.Protr.21.κβ́ (pl.); performance of a public function, BGU8ii23（iii A. D., pl.).
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (9):
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 17.94
    • Strabo, Geography, 10.3.9
    • Old Testament, Ecclesiasticus, 39.1
    • Lucian, Macrobii, 8
    • Lucian, Zeuxis, 7
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 2.40
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 4.32
    • Dio Chrysostom, Orationes, 47.23
    • Marcus Aurelius, M. Antonius Imperator Ad Se Ipsum, 12.2
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