πάρεργον (parergon)

πάρεργον means “side-work, subsidiary matter”.

Ancient Greek word, found 256 times in the texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.142.9: τὸ δὲ ναυτικὸν τέχνης ἐστίν, ὥσπερ καὶ ἄλλο τι, καὶ οὐκ ἐνδέχεται, ὅταν τύχῃ, ἐκ παρέργου μελετᾶσθαι, ἀλλὰ μᾶλλον μηδὲν ἐκείνῳ πάρεργον ἄλλο γίγνεσθαι.

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 11.11: ἀλλʼ ὀρθαῖς μανίαις, ἁγεῖτο δὲ πάντα πάρεργα.

Euripides, Electra 63: πάρεργʼ Ὀρέστην κἀμὲ ποιεῖται δόμων —

All forms of πάρεργον (declension)

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.