The corpus record

ἄκοσμος

akosmos

disorderly

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Where it lives

Persians 3 · 5.89/10k
Against Simon 1 · 4.59/10k
Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k
Proverbia 1 · 0.9/10k
Machabaeorum II 1 · 0.87/10k
Discourses 2 · 0.27/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k
Iliad 1 · 0.09/10k
Enneads 2 · 0.09/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

ἄκοσμ-ος · akosm-os — LSJ

disorderly

disorderly, φυγή A. Pers. 470; ἄ. καὶ ταραχώδης νυκτομαχία Plu. Mar. 20:—in Hom. once, ἔπεα ἄκοσμά τε πολλά τε ᾔδη Il. 2.213. Adv. -μως Hdt. 7.220, A. Pers. 374, etc.

II that is no world, inappropriate

κόσμος ἄ. a world that is no world, AP 7.561 (Jul.), but in 9.323 (Antip.) of an inappropriate ornament.

In the wild

ἀκόσμως · akosmōs Aeschylus, Persians 374–376
ἀκόσμῳ · akosmōi Aeschylus, Persians 421–423
ἀκόσμῳ · akosmōi Aeschylus, Persians 468–469
ἄκοσμον · akosmon Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.1 (DIORISIS sentence 6137)
ἀκοσμότερον · akosmoteron Epictetus, Discourses 3.4 (DIORISIS sentence 3982)
ἀκόσμου · akosmou Epictetus, Discourses 4.9 (DIORISIS sentence 7036)

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Where it came from

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