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|Definition=ον, gen. ονος, (πρᾶγμα) <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[busy about many things]], mostly in bad sense, [[meddlesome]], [[officious]], [[a busybody]], <span class="bibl">Eup. 222</span>, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Av.</span>471</span>, <span class="bibl">Lys.24.24</span>, <span class="bibl">Isoc.15.98</span>,230,237: freq. as epith. of the [[restless]] Athenians, as in the plays so entitled by Timocles, Diphilus, and Heniochus; applied to Socrates, <span class="bibl">Arr.<span class="title">Epict.</span>3.1.21</span>. Adv. <b class="b3">-νως</b> Mitteis <span class="title">Chr.</span>31 viii 30 (ii B.C.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> later and rarely in good sense, [[curious after knowledge]], π. καὶ περιττός <span class="bibl">Plb.9.1.4</span>; Ἡρόδοτος ὁ π. <span class="bibl">D.S.1.37</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Antig.<span class="title">Mir.</span>24</span>.</span>