The corpus record

κᾰχεξ-ία

kachexia · ἡ

bad habit of body

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Where it lives

Memorabilia 6 · 1.68/10k
Gorgias 1 · 0.38/10k
Nicomachean Ethics 2 · 0.36/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k
Enneads 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant — LSJ

bad habit of body

bad habit of body, opp. εὐεξία, Hp. Aph. 3.31 (pl.), Pl. Grg. 450a, Arist. EN 1129a20, PSI 6.632.8 (iii B.C.); distd. from κακοχυμία, Gal. 10.263.

2 bad disposition, disaffection

of the mind, bad disposition, disaffection, Diph. 24, Nicol.Com. 1.12, Plb. 5.87.3, Hierocl. in CA 7p.430M.: play on both meanings in Str. 14.5.14.

3 bad style

in Lit. Crit., bad style, κ. τῆς ἑρμηνείας Phld. Rh. 1.188 S., al.: pl., ib. 189 S.

In the wild

καχεξία · kachexia Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1129a (DIORISIS sentence 1532)
καχεξίαν · kachexian Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1129a (DIORISIS sentence 1533)
καχεξίαν · kachexian Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.1 (DIORISIS sentence 6178)
καχεξίαν · kachexian Plato, Gorgias 450
καχεξία · kachexia Plotinus, Enneads 3.6 (DIORISIS sentence 1830)
καχεξίαν · kachexian Xenophon, Memorabilia 3.12.2 (DIORISIS sentence 1472)

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