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πραγμάτιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: πραγμάτιον πραγμάτιου

Structure: πραγματι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: pra=gma의 지소사

Sense

  1. a trifling matter, petty lawsuit

Declension

Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἀλλ’ ἐπιμεινάντων, ἵνα αὐτοῖσι κοινώσω τι πραγμάτιον ἐμόν. (Aristophanes, Clouds, Prologue 6:20)
  • ἀλλ’ οὖν λιπαρόσ γε καὶ εὐανθὴσ ἐν γυμνασίοισ διατρίψεισ, οὐ στωμύλλων κατὰ τὴν ἀγορὰν τριβολεκτράπελ’ οἱᾶ́περ οἱ νῦν, οὐδ’ ἑλκόμενοσ περὶ πραγματίου γλισχραντιλογεξεπιτρίπτου· (Aristophanes, Clouds, Agon, epirrheme 2:2)
  • εὔθυνοσ δ’ ἔχων σανδάλια καὶ σφραγῖδα καὶ μεμυρισμένοσ ἐλογίζετ’ ὄψων πραγμάτιον οὐκ οἶδὲ ὅ τι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 292)
  • ἐπ’ ἀλφίτου πίνοντα τοῦ θέρουσ ποτὲ ἰδὼν Σέλευκον ἡδέωσ τὸν βασιλέα ἔγραψα καὶ παρέδειξα τοῖσ πολλοῖσ ὅτι κἂν τὸ τυχὸν ᾖ πραγμάτιον ἢ σφόδρ’ εὐτελέσ, σεμνὸν δύναται τοῦθ’ ἡ δύναμισ ἡ ’μὴ ποιεῖν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 401)
  • εἰ καὶ περὶ ἀγριδίου πραγμάτιον εἶχον, ἄλλον ἂν παρεκάλεσα τὸν συνηγορήσοντα· (Epictetus, Works, book 1, 16:1)
  • ὡσ ὁ ἐμὸσ Ἡράκλειτοσ περὶ ἀγριδίου πραγμάτιον ἔχων ἐν Ῥόδῳ καὶ ἀποδείξασ τοῖσ δικασταῖσ ὅτι δίκαια λέγει ἐλθὼν ἐπὶ τὸν ἐπίλογον ἔφη ὅτι "ἀλλ’ οὔτε δεήσομαι ὑμῶν οὔτ’ ἐπιστρέφομαι, τί μέλλετε κρίνειν· (Epictetus, Works, book 2, 17:1)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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