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πράξεις (praxeis)

πράξεις is an Ancient Greek form of πρᾶξις, meaning “action, business”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun.

Found 970 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.2.3: … Γεγόνασι δὲ καὶ ἄλλοι δύο Λαμψακηνοί, ῥήτωρ καὶ ἱστορικός, ὃς ἀδελφῆς υἱὸς ἦν τοῦ ῥήτορος τοῦ τὰς Ἀλεξάνδρου πράξεις γεγραφότος. Οὗτος δὴ ὁ φιλόσοφος καὶ ἐπέστειλεν ὧδε

Eusebius of Caesarea, Ecclesiastical History 1.12.1: … ητῶν κατάλογος μὲν οὐδεὶς οὐδαμῇ φέρεται, λέγεταί γε μὴν εἷς αὐτῶν Βαρναβᾶς γεγονέναι, οὗ διαφόρως μὲν καὶ αἱ Πράξεις τῶν ἀποστόλων ἐμνημόνευσαν, οὐχ ἥκιστα δὲ καὶ Παῦλος Γαλάταις γράφων. τούτων δ’ εἶναί φασι καὶ Σωσθένην τὸν ἅ …

All forms of πρᾶξις (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.