The corpus record

ἔγκοτ-ος

egkotos

bearing a grudge, spiteful, malignant

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Where it lives

Libation Bearers 3 · 5.58/10k
Histories 5 · 0.27/10k

What it meant

ἔγκοτ-ος · enkot-os — LSJ

bearing a grudge, spiteful, malignant

bearing a grudge, spiteful, malignant, στύγος A. Ch. 392 (lyr.); of the Erinyes, ib. 924, 1054; φθόνος AP 7.40 (Diod.). Adv. -τως, ἔχειν Ph. 2.520.

II grudge, for

Subst. ἔγκοτος, ὁ, grudge, ἔγκοτον ἔχειν τινί Hdt. 3.59, 9.110; τινός for a thing, Id. 8.29; διά τι Id. 6.73, cf. 133; also ἔγκοτον, τό, D.H. 9.7.

In the wild

ἔγκοτοι · enkotoi Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 1054
ἔγκοτον · enkoton Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 390–393
ἐγκότους · enkotous Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 924
ἔγκοτον · enkoton Herodotus, Histories 3.59.4 (DIORISIS sentence 3300)
ἔγκοτον · enkoton Herodotus, Histories 6.133.1 (DIORISIS sentence 6968)
ἔγκοτον · enkoton Herodotus, Histories 6.73.1 (DIORISIS sentence 6603)

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Where it came from

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