circumstance

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Affair: P. and V. πρᾶγμα, τό, χρῆμα, τό, πρᾶξις, ἡ, Ar. and V. πρᾶγος, τό, V. χρέος, τό.

Event: P. and V. συμφορά, ἡ, P. συντυχία, ἡ.

Present circumstances: P. and V. τὰ παρόντα, τὰ καθεστῶτα.

Under these circumstances: P. and V. οὕτως ἐχόντων (things being thus).

Circumstances will be found to be changing, not our city: P. φανήσεται τὰ πράγματα . . . μεταβαλλόμενα οὐχ ἡ πόλις ἡμῶν (Dem. 206).

Making with the Lacedaemonians the best terms they could under the circumstances: P. ἐκ τῶν παρόντων κράτιστα πρὸς Λακεδαιμονίους σπονδὰς ποιησάμενοι (Thuc. 5, 40).

War generally contrives from itself the means to meet the circumstances: P. (πόλεμος) αὐτὸς ἀφʼ αὑτοῦ τὰ πολλὰ τεχνᾶται πρὸς τὸ παρατυγχάνον (Thuc. 1, 122).

Circumstances, position, fortune: V. πρᾶξις, ἡ, P. and V. κατάστασις, ἡ.

Good circumstances: P. and V. εὐπραξία, ἡ; see prosperity.

Be in good circumstances: P. εὐπραγεῖν; see prosper.

Be in bad circumstances: P. and V. δυστυχεῖν, κακῶς ἔχειν.

Circumstanced, Be: P. and V. ἔχειν, Ar. and P. διακεῖσθαι.