- ἐργάτης
- ἐργᾰτ-ης, ου, ὁ,A workman, Hermes 17.5 ([place name] Delos), Ev.Matt.10.10, etc. ; esp. one who works the soil, husbandman,
γῆς ἐ. Hdt.4.109
,5.6 ;οἱ ἐ. οἱ περὶ γεωργίαν D.35.32
: abs., S.OT859, E.El.75, etc. : also with Subst.,ἐ. ἀνήρ Theoc.10.9
, D. 59.50 ; οὑργάτης λεώς the country-folk, Ar.Pax632 ; of animals, βοῦς ἐ. a working ox, Archil.39, S.Fr.563 ;ἐ. σφῆκες Arist.HA627b32
; also ἐ. θαλάττης, of a fisher, Alciphr.1.11 ; ἐ. λίθων a stone-mason, Luc.Somn.2.b in the religious sense, 2 Ep.Ti.2.15, 2 Ep.Cor.11.13 (pl.).2 Adj.hard-working, strenuous,ἐ. στρατηγός X.Cyr.1.6.18
;σώφρων κἀ. Ar.Ach.611
; opp.ἀργός, Pl.Euthd.281c ;φειδωλὸς καὶ ἐ. Id.R.554a
.II one who practises an art,τῶν ἐν πολέμῳ X.Cyr.4.1.4
; ἐ. δίκης, of a judge, Lyc.128 : abs., practitioner in some special branch of surgery, e.g. lithotomy,ἐ. ἄνδρες Hp.Jusj.
III doer,ἄσημος οὑργ. τις ἤν S.Ant.252
;τῶν καλῶν X.Mem.2.1.27
;ἀνομίας LXX 1 Ma.3.6
;τῆς ἀδικίας Ev.Luc. 13.27
.IV producer,τῶν ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ γινομένων Heraclit.75
;[Αἰὼν] θείας φύσεως ἐ. SIG1125.12
([place name] Eleusis).V a sort of capstan or windlass, Bito 58.12, Vitr.10.2.7,al., Orib.49.4.1.
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