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πολυπράγμων

πολυπράγμων, busy with many things, meddlesome

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πολύπραγμον masculine vocative singular, feminine vocative singular, neuter nominative singular, neuter accusative singular of πολυπράγμων

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πολυπράγμ-ων, ον, gen. ονος, (πρᾶγμα)
  • busy about many things, mostly in bad sense, meddlesome, officious, a busybody, Eup. 222, Ar. Av. 471, Lys. 24.24, Isoc. 15.98,230,237: freq. as epith. of the restless Athenians, as in the plays so entitled by Timocles, Diphilus, and Heniochus; applied to Socrates, Arr. Epict. 3.1.21. Adv. -νως Mitteis Chr. 31 viii 30 (ii B.C.).
      • 2 later and rarely in good sense, curious after knowledge, π. καὶ περιττός Plb. 9.1.4; Ἡρόδοτος ὁ π. D.S. 1.37, cf. Antig. Mir. 24.

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