πολυπράγμ-ων,ον, gen.ονος, (πρᾶγμα)
A. busy about many things,mostly in bad sense,meddlesome, officious, a busybody,
Eup. 222 , Ar. Av. 471 , Lys. 24.24 , Isoc. 15.98 , 230 , 237 : freq. as epith. of therestlessAthenians, as in the plays so entitled by Timocles, Diphilus, and Heniochus; applied to Socrates, Arr. Epict. 3.1.21 .Adv. -νωςMitteis Chr. 31 viii 30
(ii B.C.).
2. later and rarely in good sense,curious after knowledge,
π. καὶ περιττός
Plb. 9.1.4
; Ἡρόδοτος ὁ π.
D.S. 1.37
, cf. Antig. Mir. 24 .