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πρᾶξις , εως, Ep. and Ion. πρῆξις , ιος, ἡ : (πράσσω):—
A.doing, transaction, business, [“πλεῖν] κατὰ πρῆξιν” on a trading voyage, Od.3.72; “ἐπὶ πρῆξιν ἔπλεον” h.Ap.397; π. δ᾽ ἥδ᾽ ἰδίη, οὐ δήμιος a private, not a public affair, Od.3.82; “π. μηδὲ φίλοισιν ὅμως ἀνακοινέο πᾶσιν” Thgn. 73; ἡ περί τινος π. the transaction respecting . . , Th.6.88.
2. result or issue of a business, esp. good result, success, οὐ γάρ τις πρῆξις πέλεται . . γόοιο no good comes of weeping, Il.24.524; “οὔ τις π. ἐγίγνετο μυρομένοισιν” Od.10.202; λυμαίνεσθαί τινι τὴν π. to spoil one's market, X.An.1.3.16; π. φίλαν δίδοι grant a happy issue. Pi.O.1.85; “π. οὐρίαν θέλων” A.Ch.814 (lyr.); ταχεῖά γ᾽ ἦλθε χρησμῶν π. their issue, Id.Pers. 739; “ἄνευ τούτων οὐκ ἂν εἵη π.” X.Cyn.2.2; “δὸς πόρον καὶ π. τῷ τόπῳ τούτῳ” PMag.Par.1.2366.
II. doing, τῶν ἀγαθῶν (of persons) “πρήξιες” Thgn.1026; “ἡ τῶν ἀγαθῶν π.” Pl.Chrm.163e; “ἡ π. τῶν ἔργων” Antipho 3.4.9; achievement, Th.3.114; π. πολεμική, πολιητική, πολιτική, Pl.R.399a, Sph.266d, Men.99b; action, opp. πάθος, Id.Lg.876d; opp. ἕξις, Id.R.434a; moral action, opp. ποίησις, τέχνη, Arist.EN 1140a2, 1097a16; opp. ποιότης, Id.Po.1450a18, cf.EN1178a35 (pl.); “ἤθη καὶ πάθη καὶ π.” Id.Po.1447a28; opp. οἱ πολιτικοὶ λόγοι, D.61.44; “ἔργῳ καὶ πράξεσιν, οὐχὶ λόγοις” Id.6.3; ἐν ταῖς πράξεσι ὄντα τε καὶ πραττόμενα exhibited in actual life, Pl.Phdr.271d; action in drama, opp. λόγος, Arist.Po.1454a18; μία π. ὅλη καὶ τελεία ib. 1459a19, cf. 1451b33 (pl.).
2. action, exercise, χειρῶν, σκελῶν, στόματος, φωνῆς, διανοίας, Pl.La.192a.
3. euphem. for sexual intercourse, Pi. Fr.127, Aeschin.1.158, etc.; in full, “ἡ π. ἡ γεννητική” Arist.HA539b20.
4. magical operation, spell, PMag.Par.1.1227, al., PMag.Lond. 125.40.
III. action, act, S.OT895 (lyr., pl.), OC560, etc.; “μιᾶς μόνον μνησθήσομαι π.” Isoc.12.127.
b. military action, battle, Plb.3.19.11, etc.
IV. doing, faring well or ill, fortune, state, condition, “ἀπέκλαιε . . τὴν ἑωυτοῦ π.” Hdt.3.65, cf. A.Pr.695 (lyr.), S.Aj.790, 792; “εύτυχὴς π.” Id.Tr.294; “κακαὶ π.” Id.Ant.1305.
V. practical ability, “π. καὶ σύνεσις” Plb.2.47.5; “ἡ ἐν τοῖς πολεμικοῖς π.” Id.4.77.1.
2. practice, i.e. trickery, treachery, “ἐπὶ τὴν πόλιν” Id.2.9.2; κατὰ τῆς πόλεως, ἐπὶ τοὺς Αἰτωλούς, Id.4.71.6, 5.96.4.
VI. exaction of money, recovery of debts, arrears, etc., IG12.57.13, al.; “συμβολαίων πράξεις” And.1.88; “τοῦ μισθοῦ” Pl.Prt.328b; “τελῶν” Id.R.425d (pl.); παρὰ Ἀρτέμωνος . . ἔστω ἡ π. τοῖς δανείσασι let the lenders have an action of recovery against Artemon, Syngr. ap. D.35.12, cf. SIG364.61,67 (Ephesus, iii B.C.), Test.Epict.5.31; “ἡ π. ἔστω καθάπερ ἐκ δίκης” PEleph.1.12 (iv B.C.), etc.; “αἱ π. τῶν καταδικασθέντων” Arist.Pol.1321b42.
2. exaction of vengeance, retribution, “βαρβάρων χάριν γάμων πρᾶξιν ὡς Ἑλλὰς λάβοι” E.IA272 (lyr.).
VII. public office, ἡ διοικηθεῖσα π. Epist. Macrin. ap. Hdn.5.1.2.
VIII. discourse, lecture of a rhetorician or philosopher, Jul.Or.2.59c, Marin.Procl.22.
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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