πραγμᾰτ-εύομαι,
Ionic dialect πρηγμ-, aorist ἐπραγματευσάμην, Ionic dialect ἐπρηγμ-, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 6.8.32, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 10.9, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also ἐπραγματεύθην, Ionic dialect ἐπρηγμ-, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.87, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 12.249 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: perfect πεπραγμάτευμαι [[ [prev. author] 11.1, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 99d, 100b, +others] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also in passive sense, see below:—busy oneself, take trouble, ἀπέδωκαν τὸν νεκρὸν οὐδὲν ἔτι πρηγματευθέντες Hdt.[same place],[[compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 437c; π. περὶ σωφροσύνης [prev. author] “R.” 430d, compare “Cra.” 425c; περὶ τὰ ὄντα [prev. author] “Tht.” 187a, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 4.2.7, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1102a22, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πολλὰ ἐπί τινι π. work at at thing, labour to bring it about, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.3.15; πρός τι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Eryxias” 398a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πραγματεύονται ὅπως ἄρξουσι exert themselves to.., [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Respublica Lacedaemoniorum” 14.5: _absolutely_, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 4.4.1 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μηδὲν πραγματεύου do not worry, [[ [prev. author] “Char.” 18.9 ] Refs]: c.infinitive, exert oneself to.., [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Themistocles” 19. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__2 to be engaged in business, spend one's time in business, ὅληντὴννύκτα all nightlong, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.4.26; π.καὶ κακοπαθεῖν τὸν βίον ἅπαντα 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1176b29, compare 1122a9 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; simply, conduct a business, [[ 3rd c.BC: Zenon Papyri du Caire 199.11 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; transact business, of clerks, [[[prev. work] 647.11 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; π. ἀπὸ ἐμπορίας καὶ δανεισμῶν make money by trade and loans, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Cat.Mi.” 50, compare “Sull.” 17, etc.] Refs 1st c.AD+]; οἱ πραγματευόμενοι, = Latin negotiatores, [[ “OGI” 532.6 (from Galatia), compare “SIG” 797.10 (Assus, 1st c.AD): with _accusative_, π. τὸ συνηγορικὸν καὶ (τὸ) ἐπιδέκατον, of a tax-farmer, “Ostr.” 1537 (2nd c.BC), “PLeid.F” in “Ostr.” i ; τὴν ὑϊκὴν π. “PSI” 4.384.2 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; generally, of officials, to be employed in public affairs, [[ PGnom. 174 (2nd c.AD), etc. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]