The corpus record

πάγ-κᾰκος

pagkakos

utterly bad

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Where it lives

Seven Against Thebes 1 · 1.99/10k
Persians 1 · 1.96/10k
Libation Bearers 1 · 1.86/10k
Works and Days 1 · 1.73/10k
Suppliants 1 · 1.42/10k
Trachiniae 1 · 1.38/10k
Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k
Heracles 1 · 1.28/10k
Epistles 1 · 0.59/10k
Statesman 1 · 0.59/10k
Protagoras 1 · 0.56/10k
Laws 3 · 0.29/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

utterly bad, most unlucky, very noxious

utterly bad, π. ἦμαρ most unlucky day, Hes. Op. 813; very noxious, τὸ ἔλαιον τοῖς φυτοῖς π. Pl. Prt. 334b. Adv. -κως, ὀλέσθαι A. Th. 552; δόμοις π. ἔχειν Id. Ch. 740; π. ἔθεσαν Id. Pers. 282 codd.; τεθνάναι E. Med. 1135; π. διακείμενος Python 1.6.

2 utterly evil

of persons, utterly evil, Thgn. 149, Pl. Lg. 928e, Arist. EN 1099b5: Sup., ὦ παγκάκιστε S. Ant. 742, E. Med. 465, etc.

In the wild

παγκάκως · pankakōs Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 734–741
παγκάκως · pankakōs Aeschylus, Persians 278–282
παγκάκως · pankakōs Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 552
πάγκακοι · pankakoi Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1099b (DIORISIS sentence 237)
παγκάκιστος · pankakistos Euripides, Heracles 728–730
παγκάκιστε · pankakiste Euripides, Suppliants (DIORISIS sentence 288)

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Where it came from

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