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προὔργου , contr. for πρὸ ἔργου (as it is written in Arist.Rh.1354b27, PA674b2, Arr.Fr.163J.),
A.serving for or towards a work, serviceable, τι τῶν προὔργου something useful, Th.4.17, Ar.Pl.623; οὐδὲν π. [ἐστί] it's no good, And.2.21; “τῶν π. τι δρᾶν” Ar.Ec.784; “φαίνεταί μοι π. τι ἂν γενέσθαι” Pl.Tht.197a, cf. Isoc.4.19, etc.; ἆρά τι π. ἡμῖν ἐστιν αὐτὸ σκοποῦσι πρὸς τὸ κατιδεῖν; Pl.R.376c; ἔς τι ib.d; π. τι ποιῆσαι εἴς τι ib.498d; “π. τι πεποιηκέναι πρός τι” Id.Men.84b, cf. X.HG7.1.10; “ὑπόθεσιν π. ἔχειν πρὸς . . ” Pl.Men.87a: c. gen., τί ὑμῖν π. τῆς ξυνόδου ταύτης ἂν εἴη; Id.Demod.380c; οὐδὲν αὐτοῖς ἦν π., c. inf., Id.Alc.2.149e, cf. D.5.1: as Adv. serviceably, conveniently, “π. πεσόντα” E.IT309, cf.Hel.1379.
II. Comp. προὐργιαίτερος, α, ον, more serviceable, important, “ἕτερα ἦν προὐργιαίτερα αὐταῖς” Ar.Lys.20, cf. D.19.228; “χάριν προὐργιαιτέραν” Din.1.114: mostly in neut., “τῷ μὲν οὐδὲν προὐργιαίτ ερόν ἐστιν ἢ σκοπεῖν” Isoc.4.134, cf. PSI4.380.7 (iii B.C.); π. ποιεῖσθαί τι deem of more consequence, Th.3.109, Isoc.6.35 (also Posit. in Comp. sense, “οὐδὲν ἔστι μοι προὔργου ἢ . . ” Hp.Ep.17); “οὐδὲν π. ποιεῖσθαι τούτου” Plb.2.7.10, etc.; “π. τι γενέσθαι” Pl.Grg.458c.—Sup. προὐργιαίτατος, η, ον, Hsch., Suid.; “προὐργιέστατος” Hsch. s.v. προκαδέστατον: Adv. Sup. προυργιαίτατα cj. in Hp.Liqu.6; “-ιαίτατον” Paul.Aeg.3.61.
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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