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ἔμπρακτ-ος , ον,
A.within one's power to do, practicable, “μαχανά” Pi.P.3.62: Comp. “-ότερος, κένωσις” Philum. ap. Orib.45.29.5, cf. Sor.2.9; Χρόνος ἔ. εἰς πάντα propitious, Heph.Astr.2.30, cf. Vett.Val.205.32, al.; ἐ. ῥητορική working rhetoric, Phld.Rh.1.10S., al.; also of persons, active, ἀνὴρ τὰ περὶ τὸν πόλεμον ἔ. D.S.13.102; τόλμαν ἔχειν ἔμπρακτον πρός τι ready for . . , ib.70; τὸ ἔ. vigour, of oratory, Longin.11.2. Adv. -τως actively, Plu.Sert.4; effectively, Phld.Lib.p.380., Archig. ap. Aët.12.1.
b. holding office, “ἄρχοντες” Cod.Just.1.2.24.1.
2. ἔ. ἡμέρα day on which legal business may be transacted, POxy.1882.14 (vi A.D.).
II. under bond to pay, = εἴσπρακτος, IG7.3171.54 (Orchom. Boeot.).
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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