ἀργός: Difference between revisions

|auten=([[root]] ἀργ): (1) [[white]] [[shining]]; [[goose]], Od. 15.161; of oxen, ‘[[sleek]],’ Il. 23.30.— (2) [[swift]]; epith. of dogs, [[with]] and [[without]] πόδας, Α , Od. 2.11.

|mdlsjtxt=1<br /><b class="num">I.</b> [[shining]], [[bright]], glistening, Lat. [[nitidus]], Il.: [[white]], Arist. (Hence [[come]] [[ἄργυρος]], ἄργῑλος.)<br /><b class="num">II.</b> πόδας ἀργοί, as epith. of hounds, [[swift]]-footed, [[because]] all [[swift]] [[motion]] causes a [[kind]] of [[glancing]] or [[flickering]] [[light]], Hom. <br />2 [contr. from [[ἀεργός]] (α <i>privat.</i>,, *[[ἔργω]])]<br /><b class="num">I.</b> not [[working]] the [[ground]], [[living]] without [[labour]], Hdt.; then, [[generally]], [[inactive]], [[slothful]], [[idle]], [[lazy]], Soph., etc.: —c. gen. rei, [[idle]] at a [[thing]], [[free]] from it, Eur., Plat.; —also, ἀργότεραι ἐς τὸ δρᾶν Thuc.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> of [[land]], [[lying]] [[fallow]] or [[untilled]], Xen.; of [[money]], [[unemployed]], [[yielding]] no [[return]], Dem. —Adv. [[ἀργῶς]] Xen.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> [[pass]]. not done, [[left]] [[undone]], Lat. [[infectus]], Soph., Eur.; οὐκ ἐν ἀργοῖς not [[among]] things neglected, Soph.