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===adjective===
 
[[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[ἀργός]] ([[Euripides]], ''[[Electra]]'' 80), [[ῥᾴθυμος]], [[prose|P.]] [[ἄπονος]].
 
[[vain]], [[useless]]: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[μάταιος]], [[κενός]], [[ἀνήνυτος]].
 
[[he made no idle boast]]: [[verse|V.]] [[οὐχ ἡλίωσε τοὔπος]] ([[Sophocles]], ''[[Trachiniae]]'' 258).
 
[[idle talk]], [[babble]]: [[Aristophanes|Ar.]] and [[prose|P.]] [[λῆρος]], ὁ, [[φλυαρία]], ἡ, [[prose|P.]] [[ληρήματα]], τά.
 
[[boast]]: [[prose|P.]] [[κουφολογία]], ἡ ([[Thucydides|Thuc.]]), [[verse|V.]] [[κόμπος]], ὁ, [[Aristophanes|Ar.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[κομπάσματα]], τά.
 
===verb intransitive===
 
[[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[ἀργεῖν]] ([[Euripides]], ''[[Phoenissae]]'' 625), [[prose|P.]] [[ἀργῶς ἔχειν]], [[ῥᾳθυμεῖν]], [[Aristophanes|Ar.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[ἐλινύειν]].
 
[[sit idle]]: [[prose|P.]] and [[verse|V.]] [[καθῆσθαι]].
 
[[let one's hand be idle]]: [[verse|V.]] [[καταργεῖν χέρα]] ([[Euripides]], ''[[Phoenissae]]'' 753).
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