A.prosecution of business, diligent study, Isoc.1.44,5.7, Pl.Cra.408a, al.; “πόνων πολλῶν καὶ πραγματείας εἶναι” D.8.48; “πλείονος εἶναι πρηγματίης” Hp.VM7; ἡ μάταιος π. [λογισμῶν] this idle attention to argumentations, X.Mem.4.7.8; μετὰ πολλῆς π. with a great deal of trouble, PCair.Zen.19.4 (iii B. C.).
II. occupation, business, ἡ π. αὐτῆς (sc. τῆς ῥητορικῆς)“ ἅπασα . . εἰς τοῦτο τελευτᾷ” Pl.Grg.453a; ἡ τοῦ διαλέγεσθαι π. the business of dialectic, Id.Tht. 161e; τοῦ πολιτικοῦ . . πᾶσα ἡ π. περὶ πόλιν [ἐστί] Arist Pol.1274b37, cf. EN1105a11; ἡ δημηγορικὴ π. the business of oratory, Id.Rh.1354b24; “ἀπὸ τῆς ἀναισχύντου π. ἀποστῆναι” Aeschin.3.242; πραγματεῖαι official duties, opp. ἀρχαί, ib.13, cf.PTeb.5.143, al. (ii B. C.); esp. law-business, lawsuit, Isoc.2.18, al.; “ἡ περὶ τὰ δικαστήρια π.” Id.15.31: pl., affairs in general, “κάτω βλέπειν εἰς ἀνθρώπων πραγματείας” Pl.R.500c; “μεθισταμένων πραγματειῶν” Antipho 2.4.9 (nisi leg. πραγμάτων); troubles, D.61.37, Epicur.Ep.1p.28U.; πρὸς ἔθνη τὴν π. ἔχειν to have dealings with . . , Str.9.2.2.
b. pl., works, of the buildings of Solomon, LXX 3 Ki.9.1.
III. treatment of a subject, “εἰδέων” Archyt.4; ἡ τοῦ ἐπιπέδου π., as a definition of plane geometry, Pl.R.528d; ἡ Πλάτωνος π. Plato's system, Arist.Metaph.987a30, cf.986a8, Epicur.Ep.1p.3U., Phld.D.1.17; manner of dealing with, “ἡ περὶ τοὺς μάρτυρας π.” Arist.Rh.1376b4.
2. philosophical argument or treatise, Id.Top.100a18, 101a26; “τοῦ εἰδέναι χάριν ἡ π.” Id.Ph.194b18; “ἡ παροῦσα π. οὐ θεωρίας ἕνεκα” Id.EN1103b26; the subject of such a treatise, “τρεῖς αἱ π.” Id.Ph.198a30, cf. SE183b4; “ἡ περὶ τῶν ἀγαθῶν ἐκδοθεῖσα π.” Str.1.2.2, etc.