in evil plight
in evil plight, Ep. part., formed after Homerʼs ὀλιγηπελέων (q.v.), Nic. Th. 878, Al. 93.
The corpus record
κᾰκηπελ-έων
kakepeleon
in evil plight
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What it meant — LSJ
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.