ἔμπρακτος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ον, <span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[within one's power to do]], [[practicable]], μαχανά <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">P.</span>3.62</span>: Comp. -ότερος, κένωσις Philum. ap. <span class="bibl">Orib.45.29.5</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Sor.2.9</span>; Χρόνος ἔμπρακτος εἰς [[πάντα]], [[propitious]], <span class="bibl">Heph.Astr.2.30</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Vett.Val.205.32</span>, al.; [[ἔμπρακτος ῥητορική]] = [[working rhetoric]], Phld.<span class="title">Rh.</span>1.10S., al.; also of persons, [[active]], ἀνὴρ τὰ περὶ τὸν πόλεμον ἔ. <span class="bibl">D.S.13.102</span>; τόλμαν ἔχειν ἔμπρακτον πρός τι [[ready]] for... ib.<span class="bibl">70</span>; [[τὸ ἔμπρακτον]], [[vigour]], of [[oratory]], Longin.11.2. Adv. [[ἐμπράκτως]] = [[actively]], <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Sert.</span>4</span>; [[effectively]], <span class="bibl">Phld.<span class="title">Lib.</span>p.380</span>., Archig. ap. <span class="bibl">Aët.12.1</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">b</span> [[holding office]], ἄρχοντες <span class="title">Cod.Just.</span>1.2.24.1. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> [[ἔμπρακτος ἡμέρα]] = [[day on which legal business may be transacted]], POxy.1882.14 (vi A.D.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> [[under bond to pay]], = [[εἴσπρακτος]] ([[chargeable]]), <span class="title">IG</span>7.3171.54 (Orchom. Boeot.).</span>