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|mdlsjtxt=<br /><b class="num">I.</b> to [[pass]] [[over]], ἅλα πρήσσοντες Od.; πρ. κέλευθον to [[accomplish]] a [[journey]], Hom.; also c. gen., ἵνα πρήσσωμεν ὁδοῖο Il.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> to [[achieve]], [[bring]] [[about]], [[effect]], [[accomplish]], Il.; [[οὔτι]] πρ. to [[avail]] [[naught]], Il.; πρ. δεσμόν to [[cause]] one's [[bondage]], [[bring]] it on [[oneself]], Pind.; πρ. [[ὥστε]], Lat. efficere ut, Aesch.: —Pass., πέπρακται [[τοὖργον]] Aesch.; τὰ πεπραγμένα, Lat. [[acta]], Pind., [[attic]]<br /><b class="num">2.</b> absol. to [[effect]] an [[object]], be [[successful]], Hom.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> to make so and so (cf. [[ποιέω]] III), Νηρηίδων τινὰ πρ. ἄκοιτιν Pind.<br /><b class="num">4.</b> to [[have]] to do, be [[busy]] with, τὰ [[ἑαυτοῦ]] πράττειν to [[mind]] one's own [[business]], Soph., etc.<br /><b class="num">5.</b> πράττειν τὰ πολιτικά, τὰ τῆς πόλεως to [[manage]] [[state]]-affairs, [[take]] [[part]] in the [[government]], Plat.:—then, absol., without any [[addition]], ἱκανὸς πράττειν, of a [[statesman]], Xen.<br /><b class="num">6.</b> [[generally]], to [[transact]], [[negotiate]], [[manage]], πρ. Θηβαίοις τὰ πράγματα to [[manage]] matters for [[their]] [[interest]], Dem.; and in Pass., τῶι Ἱπποκράτει τὰ πράγματα ἐπράττετο matters were negotiated with him, Thuc.;—but τὰ πράγματα may be omitted, οἱ πράσσοντες αὐτῶι those who were treating with him, Dem.; so, πράσσειν πρός τινα Dem.; ἔς τινα Dem.; also, πρ. περὶ εἰρήνης Xen.; οἱ πράσσοντες the traitors, Thuc.; also, πρ. [[ὅπως]] [[πόλεμος]] γένηται Thuc.; c. acc. et inf., τὴν ναῦν μὴ [[δεῦρο]] [[πλεῖν]] ἔπραττεν Dem.:—Pass., of [[secret]] practices, [[εἰ μή]] τι σὺν ἀργύρωι ἐπράσσετο [[unless]] [[some]] [[bribery]] was a-practising, Soph.; ἐπράσσετο προδόσιος [[πέρι]] Thuc.<br /><b class="num">III.</b> to [[practise]], Lat. agere, ἀρετάς Pind.; δίκαια ἢ ἄδικα Plat.: absol. to act, Plat., etc.<br /><b class="num">IV.</b> intr. to be in a [[certain]] [[state]] or [[condition]], to do or [[fare]] so and so, ὁ [[στόλος]] [[οὕτω]] ἔπρηξε Hdt., etc.; εὖ or [[κακῶς]] πράττειν to do or [[fare]] well or ill, Hdt., etc.; πρ. [[καλῶς]] Aesch.; [[εὐτυχῶς]] Soph.; πρ. ὡς ἄριστα καὶ [[κάλλιστα]] Thuc.; the perf. 2 πέπρᾱγα is [[mostly]] used in [[this]] [[sense]], Hdt., Ar., etc.<br /><b class="num">V.</b> c. dupl. acc. pers. et rei, πράττειν τινά τι to do [[something]] to one, Eur., etc.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> πράττειν τινὰ [[ἀργύριον]] to [[exact]] [[money]] from one, Hdt.: often in [[attic]], of [[state]] officers, who [[collected]] the taxes (cf. [[εἰσπράσσω]], [[ἐκπράσσω]] III), Plat., etc.; also, πρ. τι [[παρά]] τινος to [[obtain]] or [[demand]] from [[another]], Hdt.:—metaph., φόνον πρ. to [[exact]] [[punishment]] for [[murder]], to [[avenge]], [[punish]], Aesch.:—Pass., πεπραγμένος τὸν [[φόρον]] called on to pay up the [[tribute]], Thuc.:—Mid., πράξασθαί τινα [[ἀργύριον]], χρήματα, μισθόν, τόκους to [[exact]] for [[oneself]], Hdt., etc.; φόρους πράσσεσθαι ἀπό or ἐκ τῶν [[πόλεων]] Thuc.:—perf. and plup. [[pass]]. are used in mid. [[sense]], εἰ μὲν ἐπεπράγμην τοῦτον τὴν [[δίκην]] if I had exacted from him the [[full]] [[amount]], Dem.

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