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ἀργοί (argoi)

ἀργοί is an Ancient Greek form of ἀργός, meaning “idle; shining”. It is the nominative plural masculine adjective.

Found 34 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, De Fato 11: … ἔπαινος δὲ καὶ ψόγος καὶ τὰ τούτων συγγενῆ τέταρτα πέμπτον δὲ καὶ ἐπὶ πᾶσιν εὐχαὶ θεῶν καὶ θεραπεῖαι λεγέσθω· ἀργοὶ δὲ καὶ θερίζοντες λόγοι καὶ ὁ παρὰ τὴν εἱμαρμένην ὀνομαζόμενος σοφίσμαθʼ ὡς ἀληθῶς κατὰ τοῦτον τὸν λόγον τυγχ …

New Testament, Matthew 20.6: περὶ δὲ τὴν ἑνδεκάτην ἐξελθὼν εὗρεν ἄλλους ἑστῶτας, καὶ λέγει αὐτοῖς Τί ὧδε ἑστήκατε ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν ἀργοί;

Pindar, Olympian 13.54: ναῒ σώτειραν Ἀργοῖ καὶ προπόλοις.

All forms of ἀργός (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.