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πρᾶσις , εως, Ion. πρῆσις , ιος, Schwyzer 688C6 (Chios, v B.C.), Hdt. (v. infr.), ἡ: (πέρνημι):—
A.sale, “ὠνῇ τε καὶ πρήσι χρέωνται” Hdt.1.153, cf. S.Fr.909, Pl.Sph.223d; ἐπὶ πρήσι for sale, Hdt.4.17; “κατὰ πρᾶσιν” Hermipp.63.15; “πρᾶσιν ἐποιήσατο τοῦ ἀγῶνος” Aeschin.1.115; “εὑρεῖν π.” Ar.Fr.567; “π. αἰτεῖν” Eup.225: pl., Arist.Pol.1291a5.
II. of legal documents, contract for farming of taxes, sale, etc., PRev.Laws 55.16 (iii B.C.), POxy.95.13 (ii A.D.), etc.
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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    • Aeschines, Against Timarchus, 115
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.153
    • Herodotus, Histories, 4.17
    • Plato, Sophist, 223d
    • Sophocles, Ichneutae, 909
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