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πρόκακος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρόκακος πρόκακον

Structure: προκακ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. exceeding bad, beyond evils

Examples

  • Πέρσαισ ἀγαυοῖσ κακὰ πρόκακα λέγεισ. (Aeschylus, Persians, choral, strophe 34)
  • <ἰὼ ἰὼ> δῆτα ἰύγγ’ ἀγαθῶν ἑτάρων μοι ὑπομιμνήσκεισ <κινεῖσ> ἄλαστα στυγνὰ πρόκακα λέγων. (Aeschylus, Persians, choral, antistrophe 31)

Similar forms

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

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