ἀργία

argia

want of employment

Appears 10 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

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Eudemian Ethics 2
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Book II 2
Chapter 1 1218b31–1220a37

1219a25
1219b19
Nicomachean Ethics 2
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Book I 1
Chapter 13 1102a5–1103a10

1102b7
Book IX 1
Chapter 4 1166a1–1166b29

1166b10
De Anima 1
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Book II 1
Chapter 4 415a14–416b31

416b3
History of Animals 1
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Book IX 1
Chapter 40 623b5–627b22

626b19
On Dreams 1
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Chapter 3 460b28–462b11

461a4
Oeconomica 1
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Book I 1
Chapter 5 1344a23–1344b21

1344b8
Politics 1
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Book VII 1
Chapter 17 1336a3–1337a7

1336a27
Rhetoric 1
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Book II 1
Chapter 21 1394a19–1395b20

1394a33

Dictionary (LSJ)

ἀργία, ἡ, A. = ἀεργία, want of employment, πεσσοὺς κύβους τε, τερπνὸν ἀργίας ἄκος S. Fr. 479.4; νεύρων καὶ ἄρθρων Hp. Mochl. 23; τοῦ καλοῦ Hierocl. in CA 19p.461M.; ψυχῆς ἀργίη Democr. 212; idleness, laziness, E. HF 592; νόμος περὶ τῆς ἀργίας against those who would not work, D. 57.32; γραφὴ ἀργίας AB 310, cf. Plu. Sol. 17,31: in pl., Isoc. 7.44. b. quietism, E. Med. 296. 2. in good sense, rest, leisure, τῶν οἰκείων ἔργων from . . , Pl. Lg. 761a (pl.), LXX Wi. 13.13, etc. 3. in pl., holidays, Arr. Epict. 4.8.33, = feriae or justitium, App. BC 1.56, PPetr. 3: sg., of the Sabbath, LXXIs. 1.14. 4. lapse of cultivation, Thphr. CP 4.5.6.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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