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μοχθ-ηρία

mochtheria · ἡ

bad condition

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Where it lives

Apology 1 · 5/10k
Nicomachean Ethics 24 · 4.26/10k
Third Olynthiac 1 · 4.25/10k
Ars Poetica 3 · 2.97/10k
Fragments 1 · 2.51/10k
Plutus 2 · 2.48/10k
Eudemian Ethics 6 · 2.3/10k
Rhetoric 7 · 1.63/10k
Lysistrata 1 · 1.26/10k
Apology 1 · 1.14/10k
Frogs 1 · 1.1/10k
Phaedo 2 · 0.92/10k

Densest 12 of 19 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

μοχθ-ηρία · mochth-ēria — LSJ

bad condition

bad condition, σκήνεος Democr. 187; σώματος Pl. R. 609e.

2 lack of skill, incapacity

of a person, lack of skill, incapacity, τοῦ ἰατροῦ Antipho 4.2.4; τῶν κυβερνητῶν Pl. Plt. 302a.

II wickedness, depravity, of the rascaldom

mostly in moral sense, wickedness, depravity, Ar. Pl. 109, 159, Pl. Lg. 734d, etc.; τὰς μ. τῆς ἠλιθιότητος τῆς ἐμῆς Cratin. 188; ἀρεταὶ καὶ μοχθηρίαι Arist. EN 1129b24: with a political connotation, τὰ πρῶτα τῆς ἐκεῖ μ. chief of the rascaldom (i.e. of the Radical party) up there (on earth), Ar. Ra. 425.

In the wild

μοχθηρίας · mochthērias Aristophanes, Frogs 423–425
μοχθηρίας · mochthērias Aristophanes, Lysistrata 1159 (DIORISIS sentence 909)
μοχθηρίαν · mochthērian Aristophanes, Plutus (DIORISIS sentence 138)
μοχθηρίᾳ · mochthēriai Aristophanes, Plutus (DIORISIS sentence 90)
μοχθηρίαν · mochthērian Aristotle, Ars Poetica 13
μοχθηρίαν · mochthērian Aristotle, Ars Poetica 13

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Where it came from

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