A.workman, Hermes 17.5 (Delos), Ev.Matt.10.10, etc. ; esp. one who works the soil, husbandman, “γῆς ἐ.” Hdt.4.109,5.6 ; “οἱ ἐ. οἱ περὶ γεωργίαν” D.35.32 : abs., S.OT859, E.El.75, etc. : also with Subst., “ἐ. ἀνήρ” Theoc.10.9, D. 59.50 ; οὑργάτης λεώς the country-folk, Ar.Pax632 ; of animals, βοῦς ἐ. a working ox, Archil.39, S.Fr.563 ; “ἐ. σφῆκες” Arist.HA627b32 ; also ἐ. θαλάττης, of a fisher, Alciphr.1.11 ; ἐ. λίθων a stone-mason, Luc.Somn.2.
b. in the religious sense, 2 Ep.Ti.2.15, 2 Ep.Cor.11.13 (pl.).
2. Adj.hard-working, strenuous, “ἐ. στρατηγός” X.Cyr.1.6.18 ; “σώφρων κἀ.” Ar.Ach.611 ; opp.ἀργός, Pl.Euthd.281c ; “φειδωλὸς καὶ ἐ.” Id.R.554a.
II. one who practises an art, “τῶν ἐν πολέμῳ” X.Cyr.4.1.4 ; ἐ. δίκης, of a judge, Lyc.128 : abs., practitioner in some special branch of surgery, e.g. lithotomy, “ἐ. ἄνδρες” Hp.Jusj.
III. doer, “ἄσημος οὑργ. τις ἤν” S.Ant.252 ; “τῶν καλῶν” X.Mem.2.1.27 ; “ἀνομίας” LXX 1 Ma.3.6 ; “τῆς ἀδικίας” Ev.Luc. 13.27.
IV. producer, “τῶν ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ γινομένων” Heraclit.75 ; “[Αἰὼν] θείας φύσεως ἐ.” SIG1125.12 (Eleusis).
V. a sort of capstan or windlass, Bito 58.12, Vitr.10.2.7,al., Orib.49.4.1.
