Zenobius 3.71
“To dance in darkness”: A proverb applied to those who toil over unwitnessed things—their work is invisible.”
᾿Εν σκότῳ ὀρχεῖσθαι: ἐπὶ τῶν ἀμάρτυρα μοχθούντων, ὧν τὸ ἔργον ἀφανές.
Plutarch, Perikles 1.4 5-6
“Often and quite contrarily, we look down on a laborer while delighting in his work.”
πολλάκις δὲ καὶ τοὐναντίον χαίροντες τῷ ἔργῳ τοῦ δημιουργοῦ καταφρονοῦμεν
ἐργάνη: worker
ἐργασία: work, labor
ἐργαστήρ: worker
ἐργαστηριάρχος: work-leader
ἐργαστήριον: a workplace
ἐργαστικός: able to work
ἐργαστῖναι: girls who make the peplos for Athena
ἐργατεία: work, labor
Arsenius, 13.49a
“Not even time, the father of everything, can make an end of labors.”
Οὐδ’ ἂν χρόνος ὁ πάντων πατὴρ δύνατο θέμεν ἔργων τέλος.
ἐργάτησιος: income-earning
ἐργάτης: workman
ἐργάτις: workwoman
ἐργοδιώκτης: task-master
ἐργολαβία: contract for work
ἐργοπαρέκτης: employer
ἐργόχειρον: manual labor
ἐργώδης: irksome, troublesome
μίσοεργος: hating work, lazy
φιλοεργός: fond of work, industrious
Hesiod Works and Days, 289-90
“The gods made sweat the price for virtue.”
τῆς δ’ ἀρετῆς ἱδρῶτα θεοὶ προπάροιθεν ἔθηκαν / ἀθάνατοι·
