The corpus record

ἔχθιστος

echthistos

most hateful

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Where it lives

Ajax 5 · 6.36/10k
Electra 4 · 4.61/10k
Philoctetes 4 · 4.54/10k
Trojan Women 3 · 4.24/10k
Sapientia Salomonis 2 · 2.9/10k
Electra 2 · 2.65/10k
Odae 1 · 2.46/10k
Oedipus Tyrannus 2 · 2.16/10k
Menexenus 1 · 2.08/10k
Phoenissae 2 · 2.07/10k
Seven Against Thebes 1 · 1.99/10k
Rhesus 1 · 1.86/10k

Densest 12 of 36 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

most hateful

most hateful, Ἀχιλῆϊ Il. 2.220; ἔ. δέ μοί ἐσσι θεῶν 5.890, etc.; τὸν θεοῖς ἔ. θεόν A. Pr. 37; ἔ. ὁρᾶν S. Aj. 818; ἔ. γεγώς E. Med. 467.

2 most hostile, bitterest enemies

most hostile, τῶν ἡμῖν ἐχθίστων Th. 2.71; ὡς δὲ ἐχθροὶ καὶ ἔ., πάντες ἴστε Id. 7.68: c. gen., οἱ ἐκείνου ἔ. his bitterest enemies, X. An. 3.2.5: Luc. has also ἐχθίστατος Trag. 246.

In the wild

ἔχθιστοι · echthistoi Aeschylus, Agamemnon 650–652
ἔχθιστον · echthiston Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 37–38
ἐχθίστου · echthistou Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 556–559
ἔχθιστοι · echthistoi Aristotle, Ars Poetica 13
ἐχθίστους · echthistous Aristotle, Politics 1304b (DIORISIS sentence 1916)
ἐχθίστων · echthistōn Euripides, Electra 1.135 (DIORISIS sentence 55)

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Where it came from

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