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ἐθελόκακος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐθελόκακος ἐθελόκακον

Structure: ἐθελοκακ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. wilfully bad or cowardly.

Examples

  • Τῷ δὲ στρατηγῷ στρατὸσ ἦν δυσπειθὴσ ὑπὸ μνησικακίασ, ἐθελοκάκωσ τε ἠγωνίζοντο, καὶ ἔφευγον ἐπιδησάμενοι τὰ σώματα ὡσ τετρωμένοι, καὶ τὰσ σκηνὰσ διέλυον, καὶ ἀναχωρεῖν ἐπεχείρουν, ἀπειρίαν ἐπικαλοῦντεσ τῷ στρατηγῷ. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 5:20)
  • ἐθελοκάκωσ. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 5:23)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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