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ἐργάτης

ἐργάτης, a workman

ἐργᾰτ-ης, ου, ὁ,
  • workman, Hermes 17.5 (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. OT 859, E. El. 75, etc.: also with Subst., ἐ. ἀνήρ Theoc. 10.9, D. 59.50; οὑργάτης λεώς the country-folk, Ar. Pax 632; of animals, βοῦς ἐ. a working ox, Archil. 39, S. Fr. 563; ἐ. σφῆκες Arist. HA 627b32; 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. 1
    • 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. SIG 1125.12 (Eleusis).
    • V a sort of capstan or windlass, Bito 58.12, Vitr. 10.2.7, al., Orib. 49.4.1.

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