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πονηρ-ία , ἡ,
A.bad state or condition, “ὀφθαλμῶν” Pl. Hp.Mi.374d; “ἡ τοῦ σώματος π.” Id.R.609c; π. ψυχῆς ibid.
II. in moral sense, wickedness, vice, knavery, “ἡ μωρία . . ἀδελφὴ τῆς π. ἔφυ” S.Fr.925, cf. Ar.Th.868, Lys.22.16; εἰς τὴν π. πάλιν τρέπεται turns again to vice, X.Cyr.7.5.75: in pl., knavish tricks, rogueries, D.21.19, Arist.Rh.1389a18.
2. baseness, cowardice, E.Cyc.645, Lys.14.9.
3. with a political connotation, mob-rule, Th.8.47.
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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