A.effect by labour, achieve, “πρήγματα μεγάλα” Hdt.5.24; “πᾶν” S.El.1022; “μόρον . . ἐπαλλήλοιν χεροῖν” Id.Ant.57; “ταῦθ᾽ ἁπινοεῖς” Ar.Ec.247; “τὰ δυνατά” Th.4.65; “τὰ πρὸς εὐδαιμονίαν” Phld.Rh.2.31 S.; “μεγάλα μὲν ἐπινοεῖτε, ταχὺ δὲ κατεργάζεσθε” X.Hier.2.2; “κ. εἰρήνην τινί” And.3.8; ἢν κατεργάσῃ if you do the job, Ar.Eq.933: pf. “κατείργασμαι, μέγιστα ἔργα” X.Mem. 3.5.11: in pass. sense, to have been effected or achieved, Hdt.1.123, 141, 4.66, E.IT1081, etc.; “κατειργασμένη ὠφέλεια” Antipho 2.1.4; “ἐλθεῖν ἐπὶ κατειργασμένοις” Lys.31.9: aor. -ειργάσθην Luc.Herm.5.
b. earn, gain by labour, acquire, “τὴν ἡγεμονίην” Hdt.3.65; “πόλει σωτηρίαν” E. Heracl.1046; “μεγάλα τῇ πόλει” Aeschin.3.229; “τοῦτο” D.45.66; “ὁ κατειργασμένος τὴν τυραννίδα” Pl.Grg.473d: in pass. sense, “ἀρετὴ ἀπὸ σοφίης κατεργασμένη” Hdt.7.102.
c. abs., achieve one's object, be successful, “αὐτὸς ἑωυτῷ” Id.5.78; simply, work, “ἐν τοῖς ἐργαστηρίοις” PTeb.ined. 703.148.
2. c. acc. pers., make an end of, finish, kill, “ἑωυτόν” Hdt.1.24, cf. E.Hipp.888, etc.; “λέοντα βίᾳ” S.Tr. 1094.
b. overpower, subdue, conquer, Hdt.6.2, Ar.Eq.842, Th.4.85, Isoc.9.59, etc.; “τὴν Ἑλλάδα” Hdt.8.100; ποσὶ καὶ στόματι κ. [τινά] attack him, of a horse, Id.5.111: in pass. sense, of land, μακέλλῃ τῇ κατείργασται πέδον is subdued, brought under cultivation, A.Ag. 526; “κατεργαζομένη ἡ γῆ” Thphr.CP3.1.3; later trans., cultivate, PTeb.10.2 (ii B.C.), etc.
c. prevail upon, κατεργάσατο καὶ ἀνέπεισε Ξέρξην, ὥστε . . Hdt.7.6, cf. X.Mem.2.3.16, Parth.13.1, Plu.Fab.21; “κ. τινὰ πειθοῖ” Str.10.4.2:—Pass., οὐκ ἐδύνατο κατεργασθῆναι [ἡ γυνή] could not be prevailed upon, Hdt.9.108.
d. c. dupl. acc., do something to one, “καλόν τι τὴν πόλιν” And.2.17 (but κ. τὴν πόλιν carry on business in the city, SIG899 (Mesambria, iii A.D.)).
II. till, cultivate land, PSI6.632.9 (iii B.C.), etc.; work up for use, freq. of food, by chewing or digestion, “ὀδόντας ἔχει οἷς κ. τὴν τροφήν” Arist.HA501b30, cf. Juv.469a31, Spir.482b16, Gal.11.649 (Pass.); τὸ -αζόμενον ἔχειν εὔρωστον a strong digestion, Id.17(2).430; κ. τὰ ἐδέσματα Sch. Ar.Eq.714; by grinding (of corn), Longus 3.30, cf. D.H.5.13 (Pass.); by ripening (of fruits), “κατειργασμένα ἐπὶ τοῦ δένδρου” Gal.11.367; κ. μέλι make . . , Hdt.4.194; κ. τὴν κόπρον prepare it, Arist.HA552a24; “σίδηρον” D.27.10; “ξύλα-ειργασμένα” Thphr.CP5.17.2; “στίππυον τὸ κατειργαζμένον” PCair.Zen.472.9 (iii B.C.); “λίθους” D.S.1.98.
2. turn bullion into coin, PCair.Zen.21.6 (iii B.C.).
