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κα^κία , ἡ, (κακός)
A.badness in quality, opp. ἀρετή (excellence), Thgn. 322, S.OT512 (lyr.), Pl.Smp.181e, R.348c, etc.; κακίᾳ ἡνιόχων by their incapacity, Id.Phdr.248b: pl., κακίαι defects, Luc.Hist.Conscr. 6.
2. cowardice, faint-heartedness, Th.2.87, Pl.R.556d; “κ. καὶ ἀνανδρία” Id.Cri.46a.
3. moral badness, vice, “μετ᾽ ἀρετῆς ἀλλ᾽ οὐ μετὰ κακίας” And. 1.56; ἡ ἀρετή, ὡσαύτως δὲ . . καὶ ἡ κ. Pl.Men.72a, etc.; personified in the Fable of Prodicus, X.Mem.2.1.26: pl., περὶ κακιῶν, title of treatise by Philodemus.
4. Philos., Evil, “ὕλη κακίας αἰτία” Plot. 1.8.14.
II. ill-repute, dishonour, “κ. ἀντιλαβεῖν” Th.3.58.
2. hurt, damage done or suffered, LXX 1 Ki.6.9, 1 Ma. 7.23, Ev.Matt.6.34.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (15):
    • Andocides, On the Mysteries, 56
    • New Testament, Matthew, 6.34
    • Old Testament, 1 Samuel, 6.9
    • Plato, Republic, 348c
    • Plato, Republic, 556d
    • Plato, Crito, 46a
    • Plato, Phaedrus, 248b
    • Plato, Symposium, 181e
    • Plato, Meno, 72a
    • Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, 512
    • Thucydides, Histories, 2.87
    • Thucydides, Histories, 3.58
    • Xenophon, Memorabilia, 2.1.26
    • Old Testament, 1 Maccabees, 7.23
    • Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, 6
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