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|Definition=(A), ἀργή, ἀργόν,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[shining]], [[glistening]], of a [[goose]], Od.15.161; of a [[sleek]], [[well-fed]] [[ox]], Il.23.30; in Hom. mostly in the phrase <b class="b3">πόδας ἀργοί</b>, of [[hound]]s, [[swift-footed]], because all swift [[motion]] causes a kind of glancing or [[flicker]]ing [[light]], 18.578, Od.2.11, etc.; κύνες ἀργοί Il. 1.50, 18.283, cf. [[Diodorus Siculus|D.S.]]4.41, Corn.''ND''16.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[white]], Arist.''Top.''149a7.<br><span class="bld">II</span> parox. as pr. n., [[Ἄργος]], ὁ, name of a [[dog]], [[Swift-foot]], Od. 17.292: also of the herdsman [[Argus]] (i.e. [[bright-eyed]], [[Aeschylus|A.]]''[[Prometheus Vinctus|Pr.]]''567 (lyr.), ''Supp.''305) who was so called from his eyes being ever open and [[bright]]. (By dissimilation from <b class="b3">*ἀργρός</b>, cf. Skt. ṛjrá-, = (''1'') [[shining]], (2) [[swift]], Vedic pr. n. ṛji-śvan-, lit. = [[possessing]] <b class="b3">κύνες ἀργοί</b>.) <br /><br />(B), ἀργόν, later ἀργή, ἀργόν [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Nicomachean Ethics|EN]]''1167a11, ''Mete.''352a13, Thphr. ''Lap.''27, Ath.Mech.12.11, etc.: (contr. from [[ἀεργός]]):—prop.<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[not working the ground]], [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]5.6; [[idle]], [[lazy]], opp. [[ἐργάτις]], S.''Ph.''97, cf. Ar. ''Nu.''53, etc.; γαστέρες ἀ. Epimenid.1; ἀ. ἐπιθυμίαι Pl.''R.''572e; <b class="b3">ἀργὸς τὴν διάνοιαν</b> ib.458a; τὸ πρὸς ἅπαν ξυνετὸν ἐπὶ πᾶν ἀ. Th.3.82; <b class="b3">ἂν ἀ. ᾖ</b> if he have no [[trade]], Antiph.123.3; πότερον ἀνθρώπου οὐδέν ἐστιν [ἔργον] ἀλλ' ἀργὸν πέφυκεν; [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Nicomachean Ethics|EN]]''1097b30: c. gen. rei, [[idle at]] a thing, [[free from]] it, <b class="b3">τῶν οἴκοθεν</b> from [[domestic]] [[toil]]s, E.''IA''1000; πόνων σφοδρῶν [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Leges|Lg.]]''835d; <b class="b3">γυναῖκας ἀργοὺς ταλασίας</b> ib.806a; [[ἀργὸς αἰσχρῶν]] = [[slow to evil]], A.''Th.''411; ἀργότεραι ἐς τὸ [[δρᾶν]] τι Th.7.67; ἀ. περί τι [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Leges|Lg.]]'' 966d.<br><span class="bld">2</span> of things, δόρυ E.''Ph.''1387; of money, [[lying idle]], [[yielding no return]], opp. [[ἐνεργός]], D.27.7 and 20; of land, [[lying fallow]], Isoc.4.132, [[Xenophon|X.]]''[[Cyropaedia|Cyr.]]''3.2.19, Thphr.''HP''9.12.2; opp. [[πεφυτευμένος]], ''IG''7.2226''B'' (Thisbe, iii A.D.); διατριβὴ ἀ. [[in which nothing is done]], [[fruitless]], Ar. ''Ra.''1498 (lyr.), Isoc.4.44; χρόνον ἀργὸν διάγειν Plu.''Cor.''31. Adv. [[ἀργῶς]], [[ἐπιμέλεσθαι]] [[Xenophon|X.]]''[[Memorabilia|Mem.]]''2.4.7; ἔχειν D.6.3: Comp. and Sup. <b class="b3">ἀργότερον, ἀργότατα</b>, X.''Oec.''15.6 and ''1''.<br><span class="bld">b</span> <b class="b3">ἀργὸς λόγος</b>, name of a [[sophism]], Chrysipp.Stoic.2.277, cf.Plu.2.574e.<br><span class="bld">II</span> Pass., [[unwrought]], [[ἁρμός]], [[κυμάτιον]], ''IG''1.322b23,59; πυροὶ ἀ. [[unprepared for eating]], Hp.''VM''13; [[ἄργυρος]] Paus.3.12.3; [[βύρσαι]] [[undressed]] hides, Ath.Mech. [[l.c.]]; [[unpolished]], Thphr.''Lap.''27.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[not done]], [[left undone]], κοὐκ ἦν ἔτ' οὐδὲν ἀργὸν S.''OC''1605; ἓν δ' ἐστὶν ἡμῖν ἀ. E.''Ph.''766; <b class="b3">οὐκ ἐν ἀργοῖς</b> not among things [[neglected]], [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Oedipus Tyrannus|OT]]''287; τὰ μὲν προβέβηκεν ἀμήχανόν ἐστι γενέσθαι ἀργά Thgn.584.<br><span class="bld">3</span> [[unattempted]], μάχη Pl.''Euthd.''272a.<br><span class="bld">4</span> Astrol., <b class="b3">τόπος ἀργός</b>, name of the 8th of the 12 '[[house]]s', Ptol.''Tetr.''128, Paul.Al.''M.''4; [[πλανήτης]] Plot.2.3.3; [[ζῴδιον]] S.E.''M.''5.15.