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μοχθ-ηρία , ἡ,
A.bad condition, “σκήνεος” Democr.187; “σώματος” Pl.R.609e.
2. of a person, lack of skill, incapacity, “τοῦ ἰατροῦ” Antipho 4.2.4; “τῶν κυβερνητῶν” Pl. Plt.302a.
II. mostly in moral sense, wickedness, depravity, Ar. Pl.109, 159, Pl.Lg.734d, etc.; “τὰς μ. τῆς ἠλιθιότητος τῆς ἐμῆς” Cratin. 188; “ἀρεταὶ καὶ μοχθηρίαι” Arist.EN1129b24: with a political connotation, τὰ πρῶτα τῆς ἐκεῖ μ. chief of the rascaldom (i.e. of the Radical party) up there (on earth), Ar.Ra.425.
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 (7):
    • Antiphon, Third Tetralogy, 2.4
    • Aristophanes, Frogs, 425
    • Aristophanes, Plutus, 159
    • Aristophanes, Plutus, 109
    • Plato, Laws, 734d
    • Plato, Republic, 609e
    • Plato, Statesman, 302a
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