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κα^κουργ-έω ,
A.do evil, work wickedness, E.Or.823 (lyr.), etc.; “κ. τι” Antipho 2.3.2; μηδὲν κ. Pl.Prt.326a; “περί τινας” Id.R.416d; ἵππος ἢν κακουργῇ be vicious, X.Oec.3.11; ἀδικεῖν καὶ κ. Ar.Nu.1175; “κ. καὶ ἐξαμαρτάνειν” Pl.Hp.Mi.375d:—Pass., εὗρέν τι -ηθέν found that a fraud had been committed, POxy.1468.19 (iii A.D.).
2. of discussion, κ. ἐν τοῖς λόγοις use captious or unfair arguments, Pl.Grg. 489b, cf. 483a, Arist.Rh.1404b39.
3. of things, “ὁ . . ἱδρὼς κακουργεῖ” X.Mem.1.4.6.
II. c. acc. pers., maltreat, injure, A.Fr.266, E.Supp.537; “κ. ἀλλήλους καὶ ἀδικεῖν” Pl.Lg.679e.
2. c. acc. rei, ravage a country, “τὴν Εὔβοιαν” Th.2.32, cf. 3.1; “κ. τὴν Χώραν καὶ τὰ κτήματα” Pl.Lg.760e, etc.; κ. τὸν λόγον spoil the argument, Id.R. 338d.
3. corrupt, falsify, “τοὺς νόμους” D.24.65:—Pass., “τὰ ἀληθῆ καὶ μὴ κακουργούμενα τῶν πραγμάτων” Id.31.8.
4. c. dat., κ. τοῖς προβάτοις, of dogs, Pl.R.416a.
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 (19):
    • Antiphon, First Tetralogy, 3.2
    • Demosthenes, Against Timocrates, 65
    • Demosthenes, Against Onetor, 8
    • Euripides, Orestes, 823
    • Euripides, Suppliants, 537
    • Plato, Laws, 679e
    • Plato, Laws, 760e
    • Plato, Republic, 338d
    • Plato, Republic, 416a
    • Plato, Republic, 416d
    • Plato, Gorgias, 483a
    • Plato, Gorgias, 489b
    • Plato, Protagoras, 326a
    • Plato, Lesser Hippias, 375d
    • Thucydides, Histories, 2.32
    • Xenophon, Memorabilia, 1.4.6
    • Xenophon, Economics, 3.11
    • Aristophanes, Clouds, 1175
    • Thucydides, Histories, 3.1
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