stir up, incite
perh. stir up, incite, νέων ψυχάς dub. in Leonidas ap. Plu. Cleom. 2, cf. Apophth. Lac. 2.235f (κακάνειν codd.), Sollert. 959b (κακύνειν codd.).
The corpus record
κακκανῆν
kakkanen
stir up, incite
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What it meant — LSJ
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