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πραγμα^τ-ικός , ή, όν,
A.fit for action or business, businesslike, statesmanlike, later Greek for πρακτικός, βασιλεύς, ἄνδρες, Plb.7.11.2, 7.12.2, al.; pragmatici homines, men of the world, men of affairs, Cic.Att.2.20.1; wise and prudent men, Vett. Val.17.22; πραγματική, = ἐπιστήμη τῶν ἀνθρωπίνων πραγμάτων, Andronic. Rhod.p.574 M. Adv. “-κῶς” Cic.QF2.14.2.
2. Subst. πραγματικός, ὁ, agent, attorney, π. τῆς πόλεως, τοῦ νομοῦ, Inscr.Magn.189 (ii A. D.), PAmh.2.107.15 (ii A. D.), cf. SIG888.101 (Scaptopara, iii A. D.).
b. Lat.pragmaticus, legal adviser, Cic.de Or.1.45.59, Quint. Inst.12.3.4, Juv.7.123.
c. civil official, opp.military officer, PTeb.58.18 (ii B. C.), OGI139.7 (Egypt, ii B. C.), 669.21, al. (ibid. i A.D.); civilian, opp. στρατιωτικός, Plb.14.1.13; “ἱερόδουλοι καὶ π. τοῦ ἱεροῦ” LXX 1 Es.8.22.
3. π. τύπος, νόμος, = Lat. pragmatica sanctio, Just.Nov.7.2.1, Cod.Just.1.3.38.6.
II. of things,
1. of history, political (including military), Plb.1.2.8, 9.2.4, al., Plu.Galb.2, etc.; π. ἀποφάσεις political utterances, Plb.32.2.7.
2. of speech or action, able, prudent, statesmanlike, ἔργον, λόγοι, Id.3.116.7, 36.5.1; “τρόπος” Id.23.5.5; ὥστε μὴ ὑποπτεῦσαί τι περὶ αὐτοῦ πραγματικόν anything machiavellian, Id.30.27.2, cf.30.19.11. Adv.“-κῶς” Id.2.13.1, al.; by statecraft, Id.31.10.6.
III. relating to subject-matter, opp. style, ὁ π. τόπος, opp. ὁ λεκτικός, D.H.Comp.1: Sup., “-ωτάτη εὕρεσις” Hermog. Inv.1.1.
2. relating to fact, θεωρήματα, ζήτησις, Epicur.Nat.28 Fr.4 (p.5 V.), Demetr.Lac.Herc.1014.62; “πίστις” Syrian.in Hermog. ip.57 R. (v.l.): -κή, ἡ, deliberation on matter of fact or on action, ib.iip.161 R.; π.ἔγγραφος, ἄγραφος, ib.p.162 R.
b. material (opp. formal, verbal), “διαφωνία” Simp. in Cael.640.28. Adv. “-κῶς, ζητεῖν” Phld.Rh.2.238 S., cf. Plu.2.960b; διαφέρεσθαι ib.1113c; τὸ π. ἀπορούμενον difficulty arising from facts (opp. verbal), Simp.in Ph.1289.35: Sup., “ἐν τοῖς Στωικοῖς - ώτατα φιλοσοφῆσαι” Porph.Abst.4.8: opp. ψυχικῶς, στοιχειακῶς, Anon.in Westermann Mythogr.p.328.
IV. πραγματικόν, τό, in Magic, effective spell, PMag.Par.1.2432.
V. troublesome, formidable, of a citadel, Plb.4.70.10; “λίαν δυσάλωτος καὶ π. πόλις” Beros. ap. J.Ap.1.20; of an attack, Plb.5.5.4; “ἀήττητα καὶ π. πλήθη” Id.1.35.5.
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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    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 2.20.1
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    • Flavius Josephus, Against Apion, 1.20
    • Polybius, Histories, 14.1.13
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    • Polybius, Histories, 30.27.2
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    • Old Testament, 1 Esdras, 8.22
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