Πραγματεία
affair, [legal] matter, grievance
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Translation
Not, as in common usage, [used] in reference to [sc. business] affairs -- and so used also by the orators in reference to those undertaking certain works -- but in reference to those attempting to contest grievances [sc. in court].1 As Dinarchus in the [speech] Against Menaechmus [writes]: "for the enmities and grievances from communal matters establish causes of private differences."2
Greek original · Adler’s text
Πραγματεία· οὐχ ὡς ἐν τῇ συνηθείᾳ ἐπὶ τῆς πραγματείας, οὕτω καὶ ὑπὸ τῶν ῥητόρων τέτακται ἐπὶ τῶν ἐργασίας τινὰς μεταχειριζομένων, ἀλλ' ἐπὶ τῶν πράγματα συνίστασθαι ἐπιχειρούντων. ὡς Δείναρχος ἐν τῷ κατὰ Μεναίχμου· αἱ γὰρ ἀπὸ τῶν κοινῶν ἔχθραι καὶ πραγματεῖαι αἰτίαι τῶν ἰδίων διαφορῶν καθεστήκασι.
Betacode
*pragmatei/a: ou)x w(s e)n th=| sunhqei/a| e)pi\ th=s pragmatei/as, ou(/tw kai\ u(po\ tw=n r(hto/rwn te/taktai e)pi\ tw=n e)rgasi/as tina\s metaxeirizome/nwn, a)ll' e)pi\ tw=n pra/gmata suni/stasqai e)pixeirou/ntwn. w(s *dei/narxos e)n tw=| kata\ *menai/xmou: ai( ga\r a)po\ tw=n koinw=n e)/xqrai kai\ pragmatei=ai ai)ti/ai tw=n i)di/wn diaforw=n kaqesth/kasi.
Notes (2)
- The headword, again at pi 2192, is a feminine noun in the nominative (and vocative) singular; see generally LSJ s.v. As Adler notes in her critical apparatus, Wentzel [below] attributed this passage to an early rhetorical lexicon consulted by the Suda's compilers (Adler, p. xvii; Wentzel, pp. 477-487). It is apparently the source of Bekker's fifth lexicon, the Lexeis rhetorikai (Bekker, pp. 195-318).
- 1Adler reports that ms G reads not
u(po/ bute)pi/ : laid down to the orators; also that ms A readstinos (for their efforts in some disputations) andpra/gmati (applying in a grievance). ↩ - 2Dinarchus fr. 87 Conomis. (For Dinarchus, c.360-c.290 BCE, see delta 333 and OCD(4) s.v.) Adler notes Bernhardy's realisation that the name of the defendant in this speech should more probably be Menesaikhmos/Menesaechmus, as in Lycurgus' speech of that name; cf. lambda 825, pi 2420 (end). ↩
References
A. Adler, ed., Suidae Lexicon, vol. I, Stuttgart: B.G. Teubner, 1971
G. Wentzel, Beiträge zur Geschichte der griechischen Lexikographen; Sitzungsberichte der königlich preuss. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1895. Reprinted in K. Latte and H. Erbse, eds., Lexica Graeca Minora, Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 1992, pp. 1-11
I. Bekker, ed., Anecdota Graeca, vol. I, Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1965
G. Wentzel, Beiträge zur Geschichte der griechischen Lexikographen; Sitzungsberichte der königlich preuss. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1895. Reprinted in K. Latte and H. Erbse, eds., Lexica Graeca Minora, Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 1992, pp. 1-11
I. Bekker, ed., Anecdota Graeca, vol. I, Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1965
Linked from2 entries
- λ825ΛυκοῦργοςLykourgos, Lycurgus[Lykourgos,] son of Lykophron, an Athenian, member of the Eteoboutadai clan, one of the orators selected to join Demosthenes. Irreproachable during his life, he died of a disease and left sons; but after they had become…
- π2192Πραγματείαdifficulty, fuss[Meaning] much ado, distress. "The king/emperor took without difficulty a city populous and protected by a great army."
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