εἰργάζοντο λογάδην φέροντες λίθους καὶ ξυνετίθεσαν ὡς ἕκαστόν τι ξυμβαίνοι → they went to work bringing the stones as they picked them out and put them together as each one happened to fit
See refusal.
illness: P. ἀσθένεια, ἡ, ἀρρωστία, ἡ, ἀρρώστημα, τό.