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ἀπράγμονας ἀπράγμων, the man ‘of quiet life’, who keeps out of law-suits and politics: ἡσύχιος, the man ‘of peaceful disposition’. In regard to law-suits, the Athenian ἀπράγμων stood in favourable contrast with the συκοφάντης, but in politics he was despised: Thuc. II. 40, τὸν μηδὲν τῶνδε (τῶν πολιτικῶν) μετέχοντα οὐκ ἀπράγμονα ἀλλὰ ἀχρεῖον νομίζομεν. τολμᾶν τά τε ἄλλα=τά τε ἄλλα τολμᾶν. For τε misplaced, cp. Thuc. IV. 10, ἢν ἐθέλωμέν τε μεῖναι καὶ μὴ καταπροδοῦναι. τὴν ἀκρίβειαν ‘the exact truth’. Thuc. I. 22, χαλεπὸν ἦν διαμνημονεῦσαι τὴν ἀκρίβειαν αὐτὴν τῶν λεχθέντων, ‘the exact form’.
Selections from the Attic Orators. Sir Richard C. Jebb. London. Macmillan. 1888.
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