κατεργ-ᾰσία, ἡ,
working up, frequently of food, by digestion or by chewing, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 675b5, “Pr.” 931a32, etc.] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἡ τοῦ πυρὸς κ. stewing, boiling, Mnesith. cited in [[ 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 2.59b ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]: generally, production, χυμῶν (in the body) [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “παραγγελίαι” 9; κοιλωμάτων 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 1p.9U. (_plural_); σίτου 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ οἰκονομίας” pp.51,55 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; working or manufacture, ἐλαίου [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 1.19.4 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; cultivation of land, [[[prev. work] 1.16.6 (_plural_), 3.20.1, “PTeb.” 61 (b). 129 (2nd c.BC)] Refs 2nd c.BC+], etc.; καρπῶν [[ 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 1.14 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]; of mines, [[ 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 3.2.10; ξύλων 3rd-2nd c.BC: Bito Mechanicus 52.2; παραδείγματος LXX.1Ch.28.19 ] LXX+3rd c.BC+]; τυγχάνειν κατεργασίας ἀφ᾽ ἡλίου, of vapour, [[ 3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 7.153 ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]; complction, κ. λαμβάνειν [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 1.12.2. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]