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σχολ-άζω , Boeot. σχολ-άδδω IG7.2849.6 (Haliartus):—
A.to have leisure or spare time, to be at leisure, have nothing to do, “σὺ δ᾽ ἢν σχολάσῃς” Ar. Lys.412, cf. Th.4.4, etc.; διὰ τὸ μὴ σχολάζειν ὑπὸ πολέμων because they have no leisure left by the wars, Pl.Lg.694e; “ἀσχολούμεθα ἵνα σχολάζωμεν” Arist.EN1177b5; ς. καλῶς spend one's leisure well, Id.Pol.1337b31; ς. ἐλευθερίως καὶ σωφρόνως ib.1326b31: c. inf., have leisure or time to do a thing, X.Cyr.2.1.9, 8.1.18, Pl.Lg.763d, etc.
2. loiter, linger, A.Supp.207, 883, E.Hec.730, D.3.35.
II. ς. ἀπό τινος have rest or respite from a thing, cease from doing, X.Cyr. 7.5.52; ἀπὸ τοῦ Κρώμνου were set free from the operations at K., Id.HG7.4.28; also “ς. ἔργων” Plu.Nic.28.
III. c. dat., have leisure, time, or opportunity for a thing, devote one's time to a thing, “πάντα τὸν βίον ἐσχόλακεν [ἐν] τούτῳ” D.22.4; ς. φιλοσοφίᾳ, μουσικῇ, etc., Luc.Macr.4, VH2.15; “μόνῃ ς. ὑγιείᾳ” Gal.6.168; τῇ γῇ, i.e. agriculture, Sammelb. 4284.15 (iii A.D.); so “πρὸς ταῦτα” X.Mem.3.6.6; “πρὸς τοῖς ἰδίοις” Arist. Pol.1308b36; “ἐπί τινος” Id.PA682a34; “περὶ λόγους” Plu.Brut.22; “πρὸς ἐννοίᾳ . . πρὸς αὑτόν” Id.Num.14.
2. c. dat. pers., devote oneself to . . , “τοῖς φίλοις” X.Cyr.7.5.39; “ἑαυτοῖς” Gal.6.810; ὁ στρατηγὸς . . τοῖς διαφέρουσιν ἐσχόλασεν Wilcken Chr.41 i8 (iii A.D.); esp. of students, study, attend lectures, “ἐπὶ Παλλαδίῳ” Phld.Acad.Ind.p.88 M.; ς. τινί devote oneself to a master, attend his lectures, ς. Καρνεάδῃ, Ἰσοκράτει, ib.p.89 M., Plu.2.844b; “τοῖς φιλοσόφοις” IG22.1028.34 (ii/i B.C.); “μετ᾽ Ἐπικούρου” Phylarch.24J.; “παρά τισι” Alciphr.1.34.
3. abs., devote oneself to learning: hence, give lectures (cf. “σχολή” 11), Apollon.Perg. Con. 1 Praef.; “ς. Ἀθήνησιν” Phld.Rh.1.95 S.; “ἐν Λυκείῳ” D.H.Amm.1.5, cf. Plu.Dem.5:c.acc.neut., “ἅπερ ἐσχολάσαμεν” Demetr.Lac.Herc.1013.18; τὰ περὶ τοῦ τέλους σχολασθέντα lectures upon . . , S.E.M.11.167; of a gladiator, to be master of a school (ludus), “εἰς Ἔφεσον” Rev.Arch.30 (1929).24 (Gortyn).
IV. of a place, to be vacant, unoccupied, Plu.CG 12, Jul.Caes.316c: c. dat., to be reserved for, “τὸ ἀπ᾽ οὐρανοῦ κορυφῆς μέχρι σελήνης θεοῖς καὶ ἄστροις . . σχολάζει” Herm. ap. Stob.1.49.68.
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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