A.love labour, be laborious or industrious, X.Lac.5.8, Phld.Rh.1.35 S.: c.acc., “τὰ διὰ τοῦ σώματος” Pl.R.535d; τὸ φιλοπονεῖν, = φιλοπονία, X.Oec.21.6, Philem.238; “τὸ περὶ τὴν ἀρετὴν φ.” Isoc.1.46; take great care of, “βρέφος” POxy.1069.23 (iii A. D.); take heed to, “τὰ γράμματά μου” PIand.97.6 (iii A. D.); build as a labour of love, “μνημεῖον” Docum.Ant.dell' Africa Italiana 2.118 (Cyrene):—Med., “φιλοπονεῖσθαι περί τινος” Arist.Rh.1405a6, cf. Theopomp.Hist.226:— Pass., to be elaborated, “ἐμμέτρως φιλοπονηθέντα” Cat.Cod.Astr.8(1).141.
φι^λοπον-έω ,
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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