The corpus record

κᾰκό-φρων

kakophron

ill-minded, malignant

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Where it lives

Proverbia 2 · 1.8/10k
Suppliants 1 · 1.42/10k
Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k
Electra 1 · 1.32/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k
Iphigenia in Aulis 1 · 1.12/10k
Orestes 1 · 1.02/10k

What it meant — LSJ

ill-minded, malignant

ill-minded, malignant, πραπίδων καρπός Pi. Fr. 211, cf. E. Heracl. 372 (lyr.), Supp. 744; κ. [μέριμνα]A. Ag. 100 (anap.): in late Prose, Porph. Abst. 2.7.

II imprudent, heedless

imprudent, heedless, S. Ant. 1104, E. Or. 824 (lyr.).

In the wild

κακόφρων · kakophrōn Aeschylus, Agamemnon 97–103
κακόφρων · kakophrōn Euripides, Electra 479 (DIORISIS sentence 260)
κακόφρονες · kakophrones Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis (DIORISIS sentence 177)
κακοφρόνων · kakophronōn Euripides, Orestes 1 (DIORISIS sentence 596)
κακόφρων · kakophrōn Euripides, Suppliants (DIORISIS sentence 428)
κακόφρονι · kakophroni Septuaginta, Proverbia 11 (DIORISIS sentence 175)

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Where it came from

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