{Standing in the marketplace idle} (hest(9374)as agor(8369)
argous). The market place was the place where men and masters
met for bargaining. At Hamadan in Persia, Morier in _Second
Journey through Persia_, as cited by Trench in his _Parables_,
says: "We observed every morning, before the sun rose, that a
numerous band of peasants were collected, with spades in their
hands, waiting to be hired for the day to work in the surrounding
fields."