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|Definition=ον, gen. ονος, ([[πρᾶγμα]]) <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[busy about many things]], mostly in bad sense, [[meddlesome]], [[officious]], a [[busybody]], <span class="bibl">Eup. 222</span>, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Av.</span>471</span>, <span class="bibl">Lys.24.24</span>, <span class="bibl">Isoc.15.98</span>,230,237: freq. as [[epithet]] of the [[restless]] [[Athenian]]s, as in the plays so entitled by [[Timocles]], [[Diphilus]], and [[Heniochus]]; applied to [[Socrates]], <span class="bibl">Arr.<span class="title">Epict.</span>3.1.21</span>. Adv. [[πολυπραγμώνως]] Mitteis <span class="title">Chr.</span>31 viii 30 (ii B.C.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> later and rarely in good sense, [[curious after knowledge]], πολυπράγμων καὶ [[περιττός]] <span class="bibl">Plb.9.1.4</span>; [[Ἡρόδοτος]] ὁ πολυπράγμων <span class="bibl">D.S.1.37</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Antig.<span class="title">Mir.</span>24</span>.</span>