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κάκ-ωσις

kakosis · ἡ

ill-treatment

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Where it lives

  • Baruch 1 · 3.96/10k
  • Esther 2 · 3.62/10k
  • Athenian Constitution 4 · 2.46/10k
  • Ecclesiastes 1 · 2.21/10k
  • Siracides 3 · 1.63/10k
  • Sapientia Salomonis 1 · 1.45/10k
  • Jeremias 3 · 1.08/10k
  • Machabaeorum II 1 · 0.87/10k
  • Exodus 2 · 0.84/10k
  • Psalmi 2 · 0.58/10k
  • Acts 1 · 0.56/10k
  • Deuteronomium 1 · 0.45/10k

Densest 12 of 18 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

ill-treatment, oppression

ill-treatment, τοῦ ἡγεμόνος X. An. 4.6.3, cf. Stud.Pal. 1.8.10 (V A.D.); oppression, τοῦ λαοῦ LXX Ex. 3.7.

2 ill-usage, misgovernment, actio repetundarum

esp. in Law, ill-usage, of persons by their natural protectors, ὁ τῆς κ. νόμος Lys. 13.91, cf. Is. 8.32, D. 10.40, etc.; γραφὴ κακώσεως Id. 58.32, Men. 328; κ. γονέων, ὀρφανῶν, ἐπικλήρου, οἴκου ὀρφανικοῦ, Arist. Ath. 56.6; τοκέων κ. Lycurg. 147; also κ. ἐπαρχίας misgovernment, of the Rom. actio repetundarum, Plu. Caes. 4.

II suffering, distress

suffering, distress, Th. 2.43; πληρωμάτων Id. 7.4; αἰκίαι σωμάτων καὶ κακώσεις Arist. Rh. 1386a8, cf. 1385a24; of the effects of disease, Hp. VM 17: pl., Id. Aër. 19; αἱ τᾶς σαρκὸς τακομένας κακώσιες Ti.Locr. 102c, cf. Phld. Mort. 21, Sor. 1.31.

In the wild

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Where it came from

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