ἐργάτης

A. 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.

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.