The corpus record

κάκη

kake · ἡ

wickedness, vice

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Where it lives

Seven Against Thebes 4 · 7.95/10k
Hecuba 3 · 4.19/10k
Philoctetes 2 · 2.27/10k
Menexenus 1 · 2.08/10k
Works and Days 1 · 1.73/10k
Theogony 1 · 1.45/10k
Trojan Women 1 · 1.41/10k
Heracles 1 · 1.28/10k
Iphigenia in Tauris 1 · 1.21/10k
Phaedrus 2 · 1.2/10k
Odyssey 10 · 1.15/10k
Iphigenia in Aulis 1 · 1.12/10k

Densest 12 of 20 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

wickedness, vice

wickedness, vice, E. Hipp. 1335, Ar. Av. 541, etc.; of a horse, Pl. Phdr. 247b.

2 baseness of spirit, cowardice, sloth

baseness of spirit, cowardice, sloth, ἄψυχον κάκην A. Th. 192; λήματος κάκῃ ib. 616; δειλίαν καὶ κ. E. IT 676, cf. Med. 1051; εἴκοντας κάκῃ Pl. Mx. 246b; διὰ κάκην Id. R. 468a.

In the wild

κάκην · kakēn Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 191–192
κάκʼ · kakʼ Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 626–628
κάκʼ · kakʼ Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 778–782
κάκʼ · kakʼ Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 849–850
κάκʼ · kakʼ Aristotle, Rhetoric 1
κάκʼ · kakʼ Euripides, Hecuba 165 (DIORISIS sentence 59)

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Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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