ἀργός: Difference between revisions

|txtha=ἀργόν, and in [[later]] writings from [[Aristotle]], hist. anim. 10,40 (vol. i., p. 627{a}, 15) on and [[consequently]] [[also]] in the N. T. [[with]] the [[feminine]] ἀργῇ, [[which]] [[among]] the [[early]] Greeks [[Epimenides]] [[alone]] is said to [[have]] used, Lob. ad Phryn., p. 104 f; id. Paralip., p. 455ff; Winer s Grammar, 68 (67) (cf. 24; Buttmann, 25 (23)) ([[contracted]] from [[ἀεργός]] [[which]] [[Homer]] uses, from alpha privative and [[ἔργον]] [[without]] [[work]], [[without]] labor, doing [[nothing]]), [[inactive]], [[idle]];<br /><b class="num">a.</b> [[free]] from labor, at [[leisure]] (ἀργόν [[εἶναι]], [[Herodotus]] 5,6): ); [[lazy]], shunning the labor [[which]] [[one]] [[ought]] to [[perform]] ([[Homer]], Iliad 9,320 ὁ, τ' [[ἀεργός]] [[ἀνήρ]], ὁ, τέ [[πολλά]] ἐοργως): [[πίστις]], L T Tr WH for R G νεκρά); γαστέρες ἀργαί i. e. [[idle]] gluttons, from [[Epimenides]], Nicet. ann. 7,4, 135d. [[εἰς]] ἀργᾷς γαστερας ὀχετηγησας); [[ἀργός]] καί [[ἄκαρπος]] [[εἰς]] τί, [[unprofitable]], ῤῆμα ἀργόν, by litotes equivalent to [[pernicious]] ([[see]] [[ἄκαρπος]]): SYNONYMS: [[ἀργός]], [[βραδύς]], [[νωθρός]]: [[ἀργός]], [[idle]], involving blameworthiness; [[βραδύς]] [[slow]] ([[tardy]]), having a [[purely]] [[temporal]] [[reference]] and no [[necessary]] [[bad]] [[sense]]; [[νωθρός]] [[sluggish]], descriptive of [[constitutional]] qualities and [[suggestive]] of [[censure]]. Schmidt, [[chapter]] 49; Trench, § civ.]