ἔργω: Difference between revisions

|Definition=Ep. and Ion., and [[ἐέργω]], Ep. for Att. [[εἴργω]] (or [[εἵργω]], v. infr.), which occurs once in Hom., <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> τῆλέ με εἴργουσι ψυχαί <span class="bibl">Il.23.72</span> (s.v.l.): impf. εἶργον <span class="bibl">Th.1.106</span>, (ἐξ-) <span class="bibl">Hdt.5.22</span> : fut. [[ἔρξω]] (ξυν-) <span class="bibl">S. <span class="title">Aj.</span>593</span>, [[εἴρξω]] or εἵρξω <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ph.</span>1407</span>, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">El.</span>1255</span>, <span class="bibl">Th.4.9</span> : aor. I ἔρξα <span class="bibl">Od. 14.411</span>, v.l. for [[εἷρξα]] in <span class="bibl">Hdt.3.136</span>, εἷρξα <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Ba.</span>443</span>, Philipp. ap. <span class="bibl">D.12.2</span>, etc.: aor. 2 [[εἴργᾰθον]] (v. [[ἐργαθεῖν]]):—Med. and Pass., pres., <span class="bibl">Il.17.571</span>, <span class="bibl">Hdt.5.57</span>, etc.: fut. ἔρξομαι <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OT</span>890</span> (lyr.), εἴρξομαι <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">An.</span>6.6.16</span>, <span class="bibl">Aeschin.3.122</span>: aor. I ἔρχθην <span class="bibl">Il.21.282</span>, <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Mul.</span>1.4</span>, εἵρχθην <span class="bibl">Lycurg. 112</span>, <span class="bibl">D.59.66</span> : pf. ἔργμαι <span class="bibl"><span class="title">h.Merc.</span>123</span>, Ep. 3pl. ἔρχαται <span class="bibl">Od.10.283</span> ; εἷργμαι <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Av.</span>1085</span>, εἶργμαι <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">HG</span>5.2.31</span> ; Ep. part. ἐεργμένος <span class="bibl">Il.5.89</span> : plpf., Ep. 3pl. ἔρχατο <span class="bibl">17.354</span>, ἐέρχατο <span class="bibl">Od.10.241</span>. ([[εἵργω]], = [[shut in]], [[εἴργω]], = [[shut out]], acc. to <span class="bibl">Eust.1387.3</span> ; cf. the compds. <b class="b3">ἀπείργω, καθείργω</b>, but <b class="b3">ἄφ-ερκτος</b> occurs <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ch.</span>446</span> (lyr.) ; the aspirate was always used in Att. acc. to Tz.in<span class="title">An.Ox.</span>3.352, but v. [[κατείργω]]: at Heraclea it occurs in <b class="b3">ἀφ-, ἐφ-</b>, and [[συνηέργω]] (qq.v.) : <b class="b3">ϝέργ-</b>, cf. Skt. [[vrajás]] 'enclosure', and perh. Lat. <b class="b2">urgeo ;</b> [[ἐ]]-is prothetic in Ep. <b class="b3">ἐ-ϝέργω</b>):—[[bar one's way]] either by shutting in or [[shut]]ting out : </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">I</span> [[shut in]], [[shut up]], ἐρχθέντ' ἐν ποταμῷ <span class="bibl">Il.21.282</span> ; [[pen]], ἐνὶ Κίρκης ἔρχαται ὥς τε σύες <span class="bibl">Od.10.283</span> ; [ἄρνες] διακεκριμέναι ἕκασται ἔρχατο <span class="bibl">9.221</span> ; τὰς μὲν ἄρα ἔρξαν κατὰ ἤθεα κοιμηθῆναι <span class="bibl">14.411</span> ; ὅσσους Ἑλλήσποντος ἐντὸς ἐέργει [[enclose]]s, <span class="bibl">Il.2.845</span> (so ἔνδον εἵρξας <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ach.</span>330</span>); <b class="b3">ἂψ ἐπὶ νῆας ἔεργε</b> [φάλαγγας] [[drove]] them to the [[ship]]s and [[shut]] them [[up]] there, <span class="bibl">Il. 16.395</span>, cf.<span class="bibl">12.219</span>, <span class="bibl">Th.1.106</span>; [[shut up]], θανόντων ψυχάς <span class="bibl">Thgn.710</span> ; esp. in prison, <span class="bibl">Hdt.3.136</span>, Philipp. ap. <span class="bibl">D.12.2</span>, <span class="bibl">Lycurg.112</span> (Pass.), <span class="bibl">D.59.66</span>, etc. ; of things, θύραι δόμον ἐντὸς ἔεργον <span class="bibl">Od.7.88</span> ; σύμπαντα ἐντὸς μιᾶς ὁμοιότητος ἕρξας <b class="b2">having included.</b>., <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Plt.</span>285b</span>:—Pass., σάκεσσι γὰρ ἔρχατο πάντῃ [[were fenced in]], [[secured]], <span class="bibl">Il.17.354</span> ; γέφυραι ἐεργμέναι [[well-secured]], [[strong-built]], [[compact]], <span class="bibl">5.89</span> : Medic., of discharges, to [[be retained]], <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Mul.</span>1.4</span>,<span class="bibl">8</span> ; <b class="b3">ἐὰν ἡ τοῦ βλεφάρου θρὶξ εἰρχθῇ</b> if the [[eyelash]] is caught (in the [[loop]]), <span class="bibl">Paul.Aeg.6.13</span> (fort. [[εἰρθῇ]], vel [[ἐρθῇ]], cf. [[ἐρτός]]). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> [[shut out]], <span class="bibl">Il.23.72</span>, <span class="bibl">Th.4.9</span>, etc. ; ἀμφὶς ἐέργει <span class="bibl">Il.13.706</span> (v. [[ἀμφίς]] A.II); κλῄθροις ἂν εἰργοίμεσθα <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hel.</span>288</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> c. gen., [[shut out]] or [[keep away from]], ὡς ὅτε μήτηρ παιδὸς ἐέργῃ μυῖαν <span class="bibl">Il.4.131</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Od.12.219</span> ; τῶν μὲν πάμπαν ἔεργε..θυμόν <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Op.</span>335</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Parm.1.33</span>; ἔργειν τινὰ σιτίων <span class="bibl">Hdt.3.48</span>:—freq. in Pass., [[μυῖα]] ἐργομένη χροός <span class="bibl">Il. 17.571</span> ; <b class="b3">εἴργεσθαι ἱερῶν, νομίμων, ἀγορᾶς</b>, to be [[exclude]]d from [[participation]] in., <span class="bibl">Isoc.4.157</span>, <span class="bibl">Antipho 6.36</span>, <span class="bibl">Lys.6.24</span> ; but <b class="b3">εἰργόμενον θανάτου καὶ τοῦ ἀνάπηρον ποιῆσαι</b> [[short of]], [[excluding]] death and maiming, <span class="bibl">Aeschin.1.183</span> : with Preps., ἔ. [[βέλος]] ἀπὸ χροός <span class="bibl">Il.4.130</span> ; τινα ἀπὸ τιμῆς <span class="bibl">Od.11.503</span> ; [ἀηδὼν] ἀπὸ χλωρῶν πετάλων ἐργομένα <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Supp.</span>63</span> (lyr.); ἐκ τῶν Ἑλληνίδων πόλεων <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">An.</span>6.6.16</span>, etc. : rarely c. dat. pers., <b class="b3">εἴργειν..μητρὶ πολέμιον δόρυ</b> to [[keep]] it [[off]] from her, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Th.</span>416</span>:— Med., [[keep]] oneself, [[abstain]], [[withdraw from]], c. gen., πόλιος <span class="bibl">Hdt.4.164</span> ; τῶν ἀσέπτων ἔρξεται <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OT</span>890</span> (lyr.); γελώτων <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>732c</span>, etc. ; <b class="b3">ἔργετο [τοῦ ἄλσεος</b>] he kept away from it, i.e. [[spare]]d it, <span class="bibl">Hdt.7.197</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> [[hinder]], [[prevent]] from doing, abs., <span class="bibl">Thgn.686</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>784c</span> : c. dupl.acc., ἀλλ' ἡμᾶς τοῦτό γε μηδὲν..εἴρξῃ <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Sph.</span>242a</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">V.</span>334</span> (lyr.):— Pass., <b class="b3">οὐδὲν εἴργεται</b> [[nothing]] is [[bar]]red, i.e. all things are [[permit]]ted, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Tr.</span>344</span>; [[εἴργου]] = [[stop]]! [[cease]]! <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">OC</span>836</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">b</span> c. inf., mostly with [[μή]] or [[μὴ οὐ]] added, οὐ νὺξ ἔργει μὴ οὐ κατανύσαι <span class="bibl">Hdt.8.98</span> ; εἴργει τόνδε μὴ θνῄσκειν νόμος <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Heracl.</span>963</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ag.</span>1027</span> (lyr.) : c. inf. only, <b class="b3">κακὸν δὲ ποῖον εἶργε τοῦτ' ἐξειδέναι</b>; <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OT</span>129</span> ; εἴρξω πελάζειν <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ph.</span>1407</span> (troch.); οὐδὲν εἴργει..τελειοῦσθαι τάδε <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Tr.</span>1257</span> : with the Art., εἰργαθεῖν τὸ μὴ οὐχ ἑλεῖν <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Ph.</span>1175</span> ; also <b class="b3">εἴργ. ὥστε.</b>. or <b class="b3">ὥστε μή.</b>., c. inf., <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">HG</span>7.2.13</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">An.</span>3.3</span>.</span><br /><span class="bld">ἔργω</span>, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[do work]], v. [[ἔρδω]].</span>