περιεργάζομαι
περιεργάζομαι
fut. -εργάσομαι
perf. -είργασμαι
Dep.:
to take more pains than enough about a thing, to waste oneʼs labour on it, with a part., Σωκράτης περιεργάζεται ζητῶν Plat.; περιείργασμαι περὶ τούτων εἰπών Dem.:—c. dat. modi, τῷ θυλάκῳ περιειργάσθαι that they had overdone it with their "sack" (i. e. need not have used the word), Hdt.:—perf. in pass. sense, οὐδὲ περιείργασται nor is there any superfluity, Luc.
to be a busybody, meddle with other folkʼs affairs, Dem.