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ἐργα^σ-τήριον , τό,
A.any place in which work is done : workshop, manufactory, Hdt.4.14, Lys.12.8, IG22.1013.9 ; attached to a mine, ib.1582.58, al., D.37.4, Is.3.22 ; butcher's shop, Ar.Eq.744 ; perfumer's shop, Hyp.Ath.6 ; barber's shop, Plu.2.973b ; “μισθώσασθαι ἐ. πρὸς ἄνοιξιν καπηλείου” POxy.2109.31 (iii A.D.); euphem. for a brothel, D.59.67, Alciphr.Fr.5.1.
2. metaph., “τὴν πόλιν ὄντως εἶναι πολέμου ἐ.” X.HG3.4.17 ; “λόγων ἐ.” Lib.Or.55.34.
b. of persons, gang, “συκοφαντῶν ἐ.” D.39.2,40.9 ; “πειρατικὸν ἐ.” Hld.5.20.
c. as Adj., φάρμακον ἐ. τινός Sch.S.Tr.846.
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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