περιεργάζομαι
Infl. fut. -εργάσομαι
Infl. perf. -είργασμαι
Dep.:
I. "to take more pains than enough about" a thing, "to waste one's 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.
II. "to be a busybody, meddle with other folk's affairs", Dem.