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Headword: *filergo/s
Adler number: phi,312
Translated headword: work-loving, industrious
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] toil-loving.[1]
"Some [of his sons] returned to him [still] foolish and ignorant because of laziness and softness in regard to loving work ..."[2]
Greek Original:
*filergo/s: filo/ponos. oi( me\n u(po\ r(a|qumi/as kai\ th=s pro\s to\ filergei=n malaki/as a)no/htoi kai\ a)maqei=s e)panh=kon au)tw=|.
Notes:
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica (references at Photius phi168 Theodoridis), and cf. phi 405 for this headword and gloss in reverse.
[2] Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 12.191 (web address 1).
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; ethics; historiography; history
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 1 January 2011@23:01:32.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (tweaks) on 2 January 2011@07:13:17.
David Whitehead (expanded n.1) on 9 December 2013@03:44:50.
Catharine Roth (modified translation, tweaked link) on 18 February 2023@01:28:31.

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