The corpus record

πᾰνοῦργ-ος

panourgos

ready to do anything, wicked, knavish

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Where it lives

Thesmophoriazusae 9 · 12.79/10k
Knights 8 · 9.01/10k
Proverbia 9 · 8.1/10k
Frogs 5 · 5.49/10k
First Olynthiac 1 · 5.49/10k
Against Stephanus 2 1 · 5.43/10k
Peace 3 · 3.77/10k
Siracides 5 · 2.71/10k
Ecclesiazusae 2 · 2.62/10k
2 Corinthians 1 · 2.23/10k
Meno 2 · 2.04/10k
Acharnians 1 · 1.41/10k

Densest 12 of 30 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

πᾰνοῦργ-ος · panourg-os — LSJ

ready to do anything, wicked, knavish, knave, rogue, the knavish sort

ready to do anything, wicked, knavish, A. Ch. 384, E. Alc. 766, Ar. Eq. 250, 450, al.: Sup., opp. εὐηθέστερος, Lys. 3.44: as Subst., knave, rogue, E. Hipp. 1400, Ar. Eq. 249, al.; ὦ πανοῦργε E. Hec. 1257, Ar. Ach. 311; τὰ π. the knavish sort, S. Ph. 448; τὸ π., = πανουργία, Id. El. 1507: Comp. -ότερος LXX Pr. 21.11; -έστερος Plu. Pyth. 2.395c: Sup. -ότατος Ar. Eq. 45, Lys. l.c.

Adv. -γως Ar. Eq. 317, Pl. Sph. 239c: Sup. -ότατα Ar. Eq. 56.

b adulterated

πανούργως κατασκευάζεσθαι to be adulterated, Gal. 14.54.

of animals, as the fox, Arist. HA 488b20, cf. 613b23.

II cunning, clever, smart

in a less positively bad sense, cunning, clever, smart, π. καὶ δεινός D. 1.3, cf. Pl. Tht. 177a, Arist. EN 1144a28; π. τε καὶ σοφός Pl. R. 409c; κομψὸς καὶ π. Plu. Aud.poet. 2.28a: Sup., Plb. 5.75.2. Adv. -γως, π. καὶ ὑποκριτικῶς λέγειν τὰ ἔπη Ath. 9.407a.

In the wild

πανοῦργε · panourge Aristophanes, Acharnians (DIORISIS sentence 229)
πανοῦργον · panourgon Aristophanes, Birds 1 (DIORISIS sentence 1265)
πανοῦργοι · panourgoi Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 480 (DIORISIS sentence 363)
πανοῦργον · panourgon Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae (DIORISIS sentence 322)
πανοῦργος · panourgos Aristophanes, Frogs 1520–1523
πανοῦργε · panourge Aristophanes, Frogs 35

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Where it came from

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