ἔργον (ϝέργον): work, deed, act, thing;
μέγα ἔργον, usually in bad sense
(facinus), Od. 3.261, but not always,
Il. 10.282; collectively, and pl.,
ἔργον ἐποίχεσθαι, ἐπὶ ἔργα τρέπεσθαι,
νῦν ἔπλετο ϝέργον ἅπα_σιν, ‘something for
all to do,’ Il. 12.271;
with specifying adj., πολεμήια, θαλάσσια ἔργα,
ἔργα γάμοιο, Β 614, Il.
5.429; esp. of husbandry, οὔτε βοῶν
ὄυτ᾽ ἀνδρῶν φαίνετο ϝέργα (boumque hominumque
labores), Od. 10.98, and simply ἔργα, fields, Ἰθάκης εὐδειέλου ἔργ᾽ ἀφίκοντο, ξ 343,
Il. 2.751; of the results of labor
(κρητήρ) ἔργον
Ἡφαίστοιο, Od. 4.617;
(πέπλοι) ἔργα
γυναικῶν, Il. 6.289; also
in the sense of ‘accomplishments,’ Od. 8.245, etc.; ὅπως ἔσται τάδε ϝέργα, these
‘matters,’
‘affairs.’