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κατάκορος

katakoros

deeply, immoderate, to excess

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Where it lives

Meditations 1 · 0.34/10k
Rhetoric 1 · 0.23/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

κατάκορος · katakoros — LSJ

deeply

= κατακορής, Poll. 5.151, Thom.Mag. p.105R.; κ. χρῆσις ἀφροδισίων Steph. in Gal. 1.239 D.:—in Adv., of colours, deeply, κ. μέλας Gp. 16.2.1.

II immoderate, to excess

metaph., immoderate, κ. καὶ περίεργοι ἱερουργίαι Plu. Alex. 2. Adv. -ρως, to excess, ᾧ -κόρως χρῶνται οἱ λογογράφοι Arist. Rh. 1408a33; τῇ τύχῃ κ. χρώμενος Decr. ap. D. 18.182, cf. Plu. Cic. 5; κ. χρώμενοι τῇ κραυγῇ Plb. 4.12.9, cf. Phld. Rh. 1.157, 366S., Dsc. 2.52, lamb.Protr. 21.κ.

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κατακόρως · katakorōs Aristotle, Rhetoric 3
κατακόρως · katakorōs Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2800)
κατακόρως · katakorōs Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 1.16.5 (DIORISIS sentence 80)

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