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ἐξεργ-άζομαι , fut. -άσομαι: aor. -ηργασάμην, Dor.
A.“-ηργάξατο” IG 1.423: pf. -είργασμαι, Ion. -έργασμαι, both in act. and pass. sense (v. infr.): aor. -ειργάσθην always Pass., Isoc.5.7, Plu.Num.9: so fut. “-εργασθήσομαι” Isoc.Ep.6.8:—work out, bring to completion, Hdt.1.93, 4.179 (Pass.), etc.; “τίς βλέποντα σώματ᾽ ἐξεργάζεται;” E. Hel.583; οὐδὲ . . μελετῶντες αὐτὸ (i.e. seamanship) “ἐξείργασθέ πω” Th.1.142; τὰ ἐπιμαχώτατα ἐ. finish [fortifying] the most assailable points, Id.4.4, cf. 5.75, 6.101 (Pass.); “τέχνην ἐ.” X.Smp.4.61, cf. Cyr.8.2.5 (Pass.); τοιούτους ἐ. τινάς make them exactly such, Id.Smp.4.60.
2. accomplish, achieve, “ἥδ᾽ ἔστ᾽ ἐκείνη τοὔργον ἡξειργασμένη” S.Ant.384, cf. Men.Epit.474; ἐ. τάραχον work utter confusion, X.Eq.9.4; “πήματα” E.Heracl.960; ἐ. συμμαχίαν bring it about, Aeschin.3.239; “πραγματικῶς ἐ. τὴν ὑπόθεσιν” Plb.5.26.6: c. dupl. acc., κακὸν ἐ. τινά work him mischief, Hdt.6.3, cf. Pl.Ep. 352d, etc.:—Pass., “σφιν ἔργον ἐστὶν ἐξειργασμένον” A.Pers.759, cf. Hdt.9.75; ἐπ᾽ ἐξεργασμένοισι after the deed had been done, usu. of crimes or acts of violence, Id.4.164, 8.94, cf. A.Ag.1379, S.Aj.377; “ἐπ᾽ ἐ. κακοῖσι” E.Ba.1039; “τοὐξειργασμένον” S.Aj.315.
3. contrive or manage that . ., “ἐξειργάσατο βασιλεὺς προσαγορευθῆναι” Plb.31.33.3, cf. Luc.Tox.32, Plu.Cat.Ma.3.
4. work at, esp. in Pass., ἀγροὶ εὖ ἐξεργασμένοι well-cultivated lands, Hdt.5.29, cf. 6.137; [“ἡ γῆ] ὅσῳ ἄμεινον ἐξείργασται” Th.1.82; of plants, train, Thphr.CP5.3.5.
5. of an author, work out, D.H.Th.15: abs., treat fully, “ἐ. κατὰ μέρος περί τινος” Plb.3.26.5:—Pass., “τὰ κατ᾽ ἐπιτομὴν ἐξειργασμένα” Phld.Lib. p.1 O.
II. undo, destroy, esp. of men, ruin, Hdt.4.134, 5.19, E. Hel.1098, etc.; in Trag., also “ἐ. αἷμα μητρός” Id.Or.1624:—Pass., ἐξειργάσμεθα we are undone, Id.Hipp.565; ὡς μή τι ἐξεργάσωνται that they may do no harm, Hp.Morb.3.16 as cited by Gal.19.182, cf. 212 (ἐξ- [or κατ-]εργάσηταί τι κακόν codd. Hp.).
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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