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πρακτός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρακτός πρακτή πρακτόν

Structure: πρακτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pra/ssw의 분사형

Sense

  1. things to be done, points of moral action

Examples

  • εὐδαιμονίαν τῶν ἀνθρώπῳ πρακτῶν ἄριστον θετέον. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 1 82:1)
  • ὥστε τοῦτ’ ἂν εἰή αὐτὸ τὸ ἀγαθὸν τὸ τέλοσ τῶν ἀνθρώπῳ πρακτῶν. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 1 112:1)
  • τὸ δ’ ὡσ τέλοσ ἀγαθὸν ἀνθρώπῳ καὶ τὸ ἄριστον τῶν πρακτῶν, σκεπτέον ποσαχῶσ τὸ ἄριστον πάντων, ἐπειδὴ τοῦτο ἄριστον, μετὰ ταῦτα ἄλλην λαβοῦσιν ἀρχήν. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 1 116:1)
  • οὐδὲ δὴ ἡ τῶν ἐφ’ αὑτῷ ὄντων πρακτῶν δόξα, ᾗ τυγχάνομεν οἰόμενοι δεῖν τι πράττειν ἢ οὐ πράττειν. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 2 168:4)
  • τὸ δ’ ὅλωσ οὐ πρακτόν ἀλλ’ οὐδὲ περὶ τῶν ἐφ’ ἡμῖν πρακτῶν περὶ ἁπάντων. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 2 175:1)

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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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