A.“-άσομαι” Thgn.1116, etc., Dor. “ἐργαξοῦμαι” Theoc.10.23, “ἐργῶμαι” PCair.Zen.107.4 (iii B. C.), LXX Ge.29.27, al., IG7.3073.12 (Lebad., ii B. C.) (but Hsch. ἐργᾷ: ἐργάζει): aor. εἰργασάμην, Ion. “ἐργ-” Hdt.2.115, A.Th.845 (lyr.), etc., 3pl. opt. “ἐργασαίατο” Ar.Av.1147, Lys.42 ; Dor. “ἠργάξαντο” SIG248 M (Delph., iv B. C.): pf. εἴργασμαι, Ion.“ἔργ-” Hdt.2.121.έ, A.Fr.311, etc.—These tenses are used both in Med. and Pass. signfs.: for other Pass. tenses, v. infr.111:—Att. Inscrr. of cent. iv have ἠργαζόμην, ἠργασάμην, (ἐξ-) IG22.1585.11, 1669.10, al., but εἴργασμαι ib.1666 A27 ; so also ἠργάσατο ib.7.424 (Oropus, iv B. C.), εἰργασμένος ib.3073.51 (Lebad., ii B. C.), “ἐξήργασατο” UPZ19.8 (ii B. C.), “εἴργασμαι” PCair.Zen.146.3 (iii B. C.); but this rule is often broken in later Pap., Inscrr., and codd.:—work, labour, esp. of husbandry, Hes.Op.299, 309, Th.2.72, etc.; but also of all manual labour, of slaves, “ἐ. ἀνάγκῃ” Od.14.272 ; of quarrymen, Hdt.2.124, etc.; “τὴν οὐσίαν οὐ δικαζόμενον ἀλλ᾽ ἐργαζόμενον κεκτημένον” Antipho 2.2.12 ; ἐ. ἐν τοῖς ἔργοις in the mines, D.42.31 : c. dat. instr., χαλκῷ with brass, Hes.Op.151 ; also of animals, “βοῦς ἐργάτης ἐργάζεται” S. Fr.563 ; of birds working to get food, Arist.HA616b35 ; of bees, ib. 625b22 ; of Hephaestus' self-acting bellows, Il.18.469 ; τὸ χρῆμ᾽ ἐργάζεται the matter works, i.e. goes on, Ar.Ec.148 ; “ὁ ἀὴρ ἐργάζεται” produces an effect, Thphr.CP5.12.7 ; οὐχ ὁμοίως ἐργάσεται τὸ θερμόν ib.6.18.11.
II. trans., work at, make, ἔργα κλυτά, of Athena, Od. 20.72, cf. 22.422 ; ἀγάλματα, ὕμνους, Pi.N.5.1,I.2.46 ; τρίποδα, Νίκην, SIG34 (Delph., v B. C.); “ἁμαξίδας” Ar.Nu.880 ; “οἰκοδόμημα” Th.2.76 ; εἰκόνας, ἀνδριάντας, καλὰ ἔργα, Pl.Cra.431c, X.Mem.2.6.6, Pl.Men. 91d ; κηρόν, σχαδόνας, of bees, Arist.HA627a6,30 ; “μέλι” Sor.Vit. Hippocr.11 ; make so and so, “ξηρὸν ἐ. τινά” Luc.DMar.11.2 ; “μέγαν” Ael.VH3.1.
2. do, perform, “ἔργα ἀεικέα” Il.24.733 ; ἔργον ἐπ᾽ ἔργῳ ἐ., of husbandmen, Hes.Op.382, cf. 397 ; “ἐργασίας ἐ.” Arist.EN1121b33, cf. X.Oec.7.20 ; ἐναίσιμα, φίλα ἐ., Od.17.321, 24.210 ; “θαυμαστά” Pl.Smp.213d ; “περὶ θεοὺς ἄδικον μηδέν” Id.Grg.522d ; ἐ. πρᾶγμα, opp. βουλεύειν, S.Ant.267, cf. OT347 ; “τὸ ἔργον Κυρίου” 1 Ep.Cor.16.10 : c. dupl. acc., do something to.., “τά περ νῦν ἐ. [ὁ ἥλιος] τὸν Νεῖλον” Hdt.2.26, etc.; chiefly in bad sense, do one ill, do one a shrewd turn, “κακὰ ἐργάζεσθαί τινα” S.Ph.786, Th.1.137, etc.; so οἷά μ᾽ εἰργάσω, τί μ᾽ ἐργάσει; S.Ph.928,1172 (lyr.), etc.; “μὴ δῆτα τοῦτό μ᾽ ἐργάσῃ” Id.El. 1206 ; “αἴσχιστα ἐ. τινά” Ar.V.787 ; less freq., “ἀγαθὰ ἐ. τινά” Hdt.8.79, cf. Th.3.52, Pl.Cri.53a ; “πολλὰ καὶ καλὰ τὴν Ἑλλάδα” Id.Phdr.244b ; seldom “τινί τι” Ar.V.1350 ; “οἷν ἐμοὶ δυοῖν ἔργ᾽ ἐστὶ κρείσσον᾽ ἀγχόνης εἰργασμένα” S.OT1374.
b. perform rites, “τὰ ἱερὰ ἐ.” 1 Ep.Cor.9.13.
3. work a material, “ὅπλα..οἷσίν τε χρυσὸν ἐργάζετο” Od.3.435 ; ἐ. γῆν till the land, Hdt.1.17, etc.; “ἐ. [ἀγροὺς] ἐργάταις” X.Cyr.1.6.11 ; “γῆν καὶ ξύλα καὶ λίθους” Id.HG3.3.7 ; [ἀργυρῖτιν] Docum. ap. D.37.28 ; ἐ. θάλασσαν, of traders, D.H.3.46 ; γλαυκὴν ἐ., of fishers, Hes.Th. 440.
4. earn by working, “χρήματα” Hdt.1.24, Ar.Eq.840, etc.; “καινὸν βίον ἐκ τοῦ δικαίου” And.1.144, cf. Hes.Op.43 ; “ἀργύριον ἀπὸ σοφίας” Pl.Hp.Ma.282d ; “μισθοῦ τὰ ἐπιτήδεια” X.Mem.2.8.2.
5. work at, practise, μουσικήν, τέχνας, etc., Pl.Phd.60e, R.374a, etc.; “ἐπιστήμας” X.Oec.1.7 ; ἀρετὴν καὶ σωφροσύνην v.l. in Isoc.13.6 ; δικαιοσύνην, ἀνομίαν, Act.Ap.10.35, Ev.Matt.7.23.
6. abs., work at a trade or business, traffic, trade, “ἐν [γναφείῳ]” Lys.23.2 ; “ἐν ἐμπορίῳ καὶ χρήμασιν” D.36.44 ; “ἐν τῇ ἀγορᾷ” Id.57.31 (also οἱ τὴν τετράγωνον (sc. ἀγοράν) ἐργαζόμενοι those who trade in the square, BCH8.126 (cf. Glotta14.73)); “κατὰ θάλατταν” D.56.48 ; τούτοις..ναυτικοῖς ἐ. trade with this money on bottomry, Id.33.4 ; “δὶς ἢ τρὶς ἐ. τῷ αὐτῷ ἀργυρίῳ” Id.56.30 ; ταῦτα ἐ. thus he trades, Id.25.82 ; “οἱ ἐργαζόμενοι” traders, Id.34.51 ; οἱ ἐν Δήλῳ ἐ., = Lat. qui Deli negotiantur, CIG2285b ; esp. of courtesans, σώματι ἐ., Lat. quaestum corpore facere, D.59.20 ; “ἐπὶ τέγους ἀπὸ τοῦ σώματος” Plb.12.13.2 ; ἀπὸ τῆς ὥρας Alexis Sam. ap. Ath.13.572f, Plu.Tim.14.
7. cause, “κολακείην” Democr.268 ; “πημονάς” S.Ant.326 ; “πόθον τινί” D.61.11 ; “σύριγγας ἀνιάτους” Paul.Aeg. 6.44.
III. Pass., rarely in pres. and impf., D.H.8.87 (ἐξ-), Hyp.Eux.35 : fut. “ἐργασθήσομαι” S.Tr.1218, (ἐξ-) Isoc.Ep.6.8 : pf. εἴργασμαι (v. infr.): aor. 1 “εἰργάσθην” Pl.R.353a, Thphr.HP6.3.2, etc.
1. to be made or built, “ἔργαστο τὸ τεῖχος” Hdt.1.179 ; “ἐκ πέτρας εἰργασμένος” A.Pr.244 ; “οἰκοδόμημα διὰ ταχέων εἰργ.” Th.4.8 ; λίθοι εἰργ. wrought stones, Id.1.93 ; “γῆ εἰργ.” X.Oec.19.8 ; “θώρακας εὖ εἰργ.” Id.Mem.3.10.9.
2. to be done, A.Ag.354, 1346, E.Hec.1085 ; “εἰργασμένα” things done, deeds, Hdt.7.53 (ἐργ-), E.Ion1281, cf. S.OT1369.
