ἔμπρακτος: Difference between revisions

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