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pravssw pravssw and (once viz. RG)
pravttw; future
pravxw; 1 aorist
e[praxa; perfect
pevpracav; perfect passive participle
pepragmeno"; from Homer down; the Septuagint several times for hc;[; and l['P;; to do, practise, effect, Latin agere (but
poiei'n to make, Latin facere; (see
poievw, at the end)); i. e.:1. to exercise, practise, be busy with, carry on:
tav
periverga, ;
tav
ijdiva/, to mind one's own affairs, (
tav
eJautou' (Sophocles Electr. 678); Xenophon, mem. 2, 9, 1; Plato, Phaedr., p. 247a.; Demosthenes, p. 150, 21; others); used of performing the duties of an office, . to undertake to do,
mhdevn
propetev", .2. to accomplish, to perform:
pepragmevnon
ejstin, has been accomplished, has taken place, ;
ei[te
ajgaqovn,
ei[te
kakovn, ;
ajgaqovn
h[
fau'lon (
kakovn), (
divkaia
h[
a[dika, Plato, Apology, p. 28 b.);
a[xia
th'"
metanoiva"
e[rga, ; add, ,; ;
movnon, to do, i. e. keep the law, ; of unworthy acts, to commit, perpetrate (less frequent so in Greek writings, as
pollav
kaiv
ajnovsia, Xenophon, symp. 8, 22; with them
poiei'n ((see Schmidt, Syn., chapter 23, 11, 3; Liddell and Scott, under the word, B.)) is more common in reference to bad conduct; hence,
touv"
ejpistamevnou"
mevn
a{
dei'
pravttein,
poiou'nta"
dev
tanantia, Xenophon, mem. 3, 9, 4), ; ;
tov
e[rgon
tou'to, this (criminal) deed, T WH Tr marginal reading; add, ; ; ; ;
tav
toiau'ta, such nameless iniquities, (where
poiei'n and
pravssein are used indiscriminately (but cf. Meyer)); ; ; (
fau'la, ; ;
tiv
a[xion
qanavtou, ; ,; ;
tov
kakovn, ; ;
a[topon, ;
tiv
tivni
kakovn, to bring evil upon one, .3. to manage public affairs, transact public business (Xenophon, Demosthenes, Plutarch); from this use has come a sense met with from Pindar, Aeschylus, Herodotus down, viz. to exact tribute, revenue, debts: (here R. V. extort);
tov
ajrguvrion, (so agere in Latin, cf. the commentators on Suetonius, Vesp. 1; (cf. Winer's Grammar, sec. 42, 1 a.)).4. intransitive, to act (see
eu\, p. 256a):
ajpevnanti
tivno", contrary to a thing, .5. from Aeschylus and Herodotus down reflexively, me habere:
tiv
pravssw, how I do, the state of my affairs, ;
eu\
pravxete (see
eu\), (cf. Buttmann, 300 (258)).