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ἔμπρακτ-ος

empraktos

within oneʼs power to do, practicable

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What it meant

ἔμπρακτ-ος · emprakt-os — LSJ

within oneʼs power to do, practicable, propitious, working, active, ready for, vigour, actively, effectively

within oneʼs power to do, practicable, μαχανά Pi. P. 3.62: Comp. -ότερος, κένωσις Philum. ap. Orib. 45.29.5, cf. Sor. 2.9; χρόνος ἔ. εἰς πάντα propitious, Heph.Astr. 2.30, cf. Vett.Val. 205.32, al.; ἐ. ῥητορική working rhetoric, Phld. Rh. 1.10S., al.; also of persons, active, ἀνὴρ τὰ περὶ τὸν πόλεμον ἔ. D.S. 13.102; τόλμαν ἔχειν ἔμπρακτον πρός τι ready for . . , ib. 70; τὸ ἔ. vigour, of oratory, Longin. 11.2. Adv. -τως actively, Plu. Sert. 4; effectively, Phld. Lib. p.380., Archig. ap. Aët. 12.1

b holding office

holding office, ἄρχοντες Cod.Just. 1.2.24.1.

2 on which legal business may be transacted

ἔ. ἡμέρα day on which legal business may be transacted, POxy. 1882.14 (vi A.D.).

II under bond

under bond to pay, = εἴσπρακτος, IG 7.3171.54 (Orchom. Boeot.).

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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