πράξεσιν (praxesin)

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

Found 126 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Comparison of Lycurgus and Numa 1.1: … ἀμφοῖν, εἰ καὶ χαλεπὸν ἔργον, οὐκ ἀποκνητέον συναγαγεῖν τὰς διαφοράς, αἱ μὲν γὰρ κοινότητες ἐπιφαίνονται ταῖς πράξεσιν, οἷον ἡ σωφροσύνη τῶν ἀνδρῶν, ἡ εὐσέβεια, τὸ πολιτικόν, τὸ παιδευτικόν, τὸ μίαν ἀρχὴν παρὰ τῶν θεῶν ἀμφοτέρου …

Strabo, Geography 12.3.27: … καὶ ἀξιομνημόνευτα μέν, οὐχ ὑπέδραμε δέ· πολὺ γὰρ δὴ καὶ τὸ ἐπελευστικὸν εἶδος ἔν τε τοῖς λόγοις καὶ ἐν ταῖς πράξεσίν ἐστιν. ἐκ πάντων δὲ τούτων καὶ τῶν τοιούτων δῆλόν ἐστιν ὅτι μοχθηρῷ σημείῳ χρῆται πᾶς ὁ ἐκ τοῦ μὴ λέγεσθαί τι …

Clement of Alexandria, Stromata 1.11.50: … οιχεῖα τοῦ κόσμου καὶ οὐ κατὰ Χριστόν; φιλοσοφίαν μὲν οὐ πᾶσαν, ἀλλὰ τὴν Ἐπικούρειον, ἧς καὶ μέμνηται ἐν ταῖς Πράξεσιν τῶν ἀποστόλων ὁ Παῦλος, διαβάλλων, πρόνοιαν ἀναιροῦσαν καὶ ἡδονὴν ἐκθειάζουσαν, καὶ εἰ δή τις ἄλλη τὰ στοιχεῖ …

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.