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κα^κότης , ητος, ἡ, (κακός)
A.badness:
I. of moral character, baseness, cowardice, Il.2.368, 13.108, Od.24.455; ἀτιμίη καὶ κ. Tyrt.10.10; “κ. καὶ δειλία” Th.5.100; οὐδεμιῇ κ. λειφθῆναι τῆς ναυμαχίης not through cowardice, Hdt.7.168.
2. wickedness, vice, “τείσασθαι Ἀλέξανδρον κακότητος” Il.3.366, cf. Hes.Op.287, Democr.178; “κακότητος ἄπειροι” Emp.112.3; “κακότητ᾽ ἀσκεῖν” A.Pr.1066 (anap.); ἄνευ κακότητος [συμφορά] Antipho6.1: pl., Emp.145.
II. of condition, evil case, distress, misery, “ἐκφυγέειν κακότητα” Od.5.414, cf. 290, 379, 397, Pi.P.2.35, Hdt.2.128, 6.67, S.El.236 (lyr.); esp. in war, “Τρῶες ἀνέπνευσαν κακότητος” Il.11.382, cf. 12.332, Hdt.8.109, etc.: pl., distresses, miseries, Alc.59, E.Fr.303 codd. (lyr.); αἱ ἐντὸς κ. Pl.Ax. 366a.
III. of quality, badness, “τῶν οὔρων” Hp.Epid.3.10: pl., bad qualities, Id.Acut.57.
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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    • Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, 1066
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    • Hesiod, Works and Days, 287
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    • Homer, Odyssey, 24.455
    • Homer, Odyssey, 5.414
    • Sophocles, Electra, 236
    • Thucydides, Histories, 5.100
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