πράσσω
I. "to pass over", ἅλα πρήσσοντες Od.; πρ. κέλευθον "to accomplish" a journey, Hom.; also c. gen., ἵνα πρήσσωμεν ὁδοῖο Il.
II. "to achieve, bring about, effect, accomplish", id=Il.; οὔτι πρ. "to avail" naught, id=Il.; πρ. δεσμόν "to cause" one's bondage, "bring" it "on" oneself, Pind.; πρ. ὥστε, Lat. efficere ut, Aesch.: —Pass., πέπρακται τοὖργον id=Aesch.; τὰ πεπραγμένα, Lat. acta, Pind., attic
2. absol. "to effect an object, be successful", Hom.
3. "to make" so and so (cf. ποιέω III), Νηρηίδων τινὰ πρ. ἄκοιτιν Pind.
4. "to have to do, be busy with", τὰ ἑαυτοῦ πράττειν "to mind" one's own "business", Soph., etc.
5. πράττειν τὰ πολιτικά, τὰ τῆς πόλεως "to manage" state-affairs, take part in the government, Plat.:—then, absol., without any addition, ἱκανὸς πράττειν, of a statesman, Xen.
6. generally, "to transact, negotiate, manage", πρ. Θηβαίοις τὰ πράγματα "to manage" matters for their interest, Dem.; and in Pass., τῶι Ἱπποκράτει τὰ πράγματα ἐπράττετο matters were "negotiated" with him, Thuc.;—but τὰ πράγματα may be omitted, οἱ πράσσοντες αὐτῶι "those who were treating with" him, id=Dem.; so, πράσσειν πρός τινα id=Dem.; ἔς τινα id=Dem.; also, πρ. περὶ εἰρήνης Xen.; οἱ πράσσοντες "the traitors", Thuc.; also, πρ. ὅπως πόλεμος γένηται id=Thuc.; c. acc. et inf., τὴν ναῦν μὴ δεῦρο πλεῖν ἔπραττεν Dem.:—Pass., of secret practices, εἰ μή τι σὺν ἀργύρωι ἐπράσσετο unless some bribery "was a-practising", Soph.; ἐπράσσετο προδόσιος πέρι Thuc.
III. "to practise", Lat. agere, ἀρετάς Pind.; δίκαια ἢ ἄδικα Plat.: absol. "to act", id=Plat., etc.
IV. intr. "to be in a certain state or condition, to do or fare so and so", ὁ στόλος οὕτω ἔπρηξε Hdt., etc.; εὖ or κακῶς πράττειν "to do or fare" well or ill, id=Hdt., etc.; πρ. καλῶς Aesch.; εὐτυχῶς Soph.; πρ. ὡς ἄριστα καὶ κάλλιστα Thuc.; the perf. 2 πέπρα_γα is mostly used in this sense, Hdt., Ar., etc.
V. c. dupl. acc. pers. et rei, πράττειν τινά τι "to do" something "to" one, Eur., etc.
2. πράττειν τινὰ ἀργύριον "to exact" money from one, Hdt.: often in attic, of state officers, who collected the taxes (cf. εἰσπράσσω, ἐκπράσσω III), Plat., etc.; also, πρ. τι παρά τινος "to obtain or demand" from another, Hdt.:—metaph., φόνον πρ. "to exact punishment for" murder, "to avenge, punish", Aesch.:—Pass., πεπραγμένος τὸν φόρον "called on to pay up" the tribute, Thuc.:—Mid., πράξασθαί τινα ἀργύριον, χρήματα, μισθόν, τόκους "to exact for oneself", Hdt., etc.; φόρους πράσσεσθαι ἀπό or ἐκ τῶν πόλεων Thuc.:—perf. and plup. pass. are used in mid. sense, εἰ μὲν ἐπεπράγμην τοῦτον τὴν δίκην if "I had exacted" from him the full amount, Dem.