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κα^κός , ή, όν,
A.bad:
I. of persons,
1. of appearance, ugly, “εἶδος μὲν ἔην κακόςIl.10.316, cf. Paus.8.49.3.
4. bad of his kind, i. e. worthless, sorry, unskilled, “ἡνίοχοιIl. 17.487; [τοξότης] κ. ἀγαθός ib.632; “νομῆεςOd.17.246; κ. ἀλήτης a bad beggar, ib.578; “ἰατρόςA.Pr.473; κυβερνήτης, ναύτης, E.Supp. 880, Andr.457; “μάγειροςPl.Phdr.265e: c. acc. modi, πάντα γὰρ οὐ κακός εἰμι I am not bad in all things, Od.8.214; “κ. γνώμηνS.Ph.910: also c. dat., “κακοὶ γνώμαισιId.Aj.964: c. inf., “κ. μανθάνεινId.OT545; [νῆσος] “φυτεύεσθαι κακήTrag.Adesp.393; cf. 11.
6. wretched, Herod.3.42.
II. of things, evil, pernicious, freq. in Hom., etc., as δαίμων, θάνατος, μοῖρα, αἶσα, κῆρες, νοῦσος, ἕλκος, φάρμακα, ὀδύναι, Od.10.64, Il.3.173, 13.602, 1.418, Od.2.316, Il.1.10, 2.723, 22.94, 5.766; Χόλος, ἔρις, Il.16.206, Od.3.161; πόλεμος, ἔπος, ἔργα, Il.4.82, 24.767, Od.2.67, al.; ἦμαρ, ἄνεμος, Il.9.251, Od.5.109; of omens and the like , unlucky, ὄρνις, ὄναρ, σῆμα, Il.24.219, 10.496, 22.30: also in Trag., κ. τύχη, δαίμων, μόρος, S.Tr.328, A.Pers.354, 369, etc.; of words, abusive, foul, “κ. λόγοιS.Ant.259, cf. Tr.461; κ. ποιμήν, i.e. the storm, A.Ag.657: Astrol., unlucky, “τόποιHeph.Astr.1.12; κ. τύχη, name for the sixth region, Paul.Al.M.1.
2. κακά, τά, evil words, reproaches, “πολλά τε καὶ κακὰ λέγεινHdt.8.61, cf.A.Th.571, S.Aj.1244,Ph.382, etc.
3. Philos., κακόν, τό, Evil, Stoic.3.18, al., Plot.1.8.1, al.
4. of a person, pest, nuisance, “τουτὶ παρέξει τὸ κ. ἡμῖν πράγματαAr.Av.931; also, comically, ὅσον συνείλεκται κακὸν ὀρνέων what a devil of a lot of birds, ib.294.
C. degrees of Comparison:
1. regul. Comp. in Ep., “κακώτεροςOd.6.275, 15.343, Theoc.27.22, A.R.3.421, etc.: also in late Prose, Alciphr.3.62: irreg. κακίων, ον [with ι^], Od.2.277, Thgn.262, etc., with ι_ in Trag., exc. E.Fr.546 (anap.); “κακι_ότεροςAP12.7 (Strato).
2. Sup. “κάκιστοςHom., etc.--Cf. also Χείρων, Χείριστος, and ἥσσων, ἥκιστος.
2. Adv. and Adj. freq. coupled in Trag., Att., etc., “κακὸν κακῶς νιν . . ἐκτρῖψαι βίονS.OT248; “κακὸς κακῶς ταφήσῃE.Tr.446 (troch.); “ἀπό σ᾽ ὀλῶ κακὸν κακῶςAr.Pl.65, cf. Eq.189, 190, D.32.6, Procop.Pers.1.24; “κακοὺς κακῶς ἀπολέσει αὐτούςEv.Matt.21.41; “κακοὺς κάκισταS.Aj.839; in reversed order, “ὥσπερ ἀξία κακῶς κακὴ θανεῖταιE.Tr.1055; with intervening words, “κακῶς . . ἀπόλλυσθαι κακούςS.Ph.1369, cf. E.Cyc.268, Ar.Eq.2. (Perh. cogn. with Avest. kasu-, Comp. kasyah-, Sup. kasišta- 'small', Lith. nukašëti 'grow feeble, thin', Germ. hager.
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