The corpus record

ῥᾳδιουργ-ός

radiourgos

doing things easily

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Where it lives

Virtues and Vices 1 · 6.74/10k
Symposium 1 · 1.05/10k
Discourses 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant — LSJ

doing things easily, unscrupulous, reckless, knave, rogue, forger

doing things easily, only in bad sense, unscrupulous, reckless, ῥ. εἶναι ἐν τοῖς λόγοις καὶ ἐν τοῖς ἔργοις Arist. VV 1251a20: as Subst., knave, rogue, Plb. 4.29.4, Supp.Epigr. 2.292.9 (Delph., i B.C.), Plu. Exil. 2.602a, Arr. Epict. 3.22.93; esp. for πλαστογράφος, forger, Hsch., Phot., Suid.

2 impure

of things, opp. ἁγνός, impure, θυσίαι -ότεραι X. Smp. 8.9: Adv. Comp. -ότερον in this sense, Arr. An. 2.5.4.

In the wild

ῥᾳδιουργὸν · rhaidiourgon Aristotle, Virtues and Vices (DIORISIS sentence 51)
ῥᾳδιουργόν · rhaidiourgon Epictetus, Discourses 3.22 (DIORISIS sentence 5075)
ῥᾳδιουργότεραι · rhaidiourgoterai Xenophon, Symposium 8.9 (DIORISIS sentence 597)

Where it came from

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