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ῥα_θυ_μ-έω ,
A.leave off work, take holiday, Plb.10.20.2, Plu.Sull.26.
2. mostly in bad sense, to be remiss, be idle, X.An.2.6.6, Isoc.1.9, Phib. 1.46.12 (iii B.C.), etc.; “ῥ. ἐπί τινι” D.19.270; “περί τινος” Plb.2.49.9; “τὰ περὶ τὰς φυλακάς” D.S.2.18; “περὶ τὴν φυλακήν” Id.14.88.
3. trans., neglect, “ἀμπεχόνη οὐκ ἐρραθυμημένη” Lib.Or.11.154, cf. 60.5, Descr.29.4. [Freq. written ῥᾳθ- in codd., but ῥαθ- correctly in PCair.Zen.57.6 (iii B.C.), PHib. l.c., Phld.Lib.p.24 O.; “καταρ（ρ）αθ-” PCair.Zen. 408.11 (iii B.C.), PHib.1.44.4 (iii B.C.).]
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 (8):
    • Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, 270
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 14.88
    • Isocrates, To Demonicus, 9
    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 2.6.6
    • Polybius, Histories, 10.20.2
    • Polybius, Histories, 2.49.9
    • Plutarch, Sulla, 26
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 2.18
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