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Κακόθρους · bad-mouthing (κ 162) · Suda

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Α Β Γ Δ Ε Ζ Η Θ Ι Κ Λ Μ Ν Ξ Ο Π Ρ Σ Τ Υ Φ Χ Ψ Ω

Near κ162

κ158bad taste
κ159most ill-natured
κ160maleficence
κ161malicious
κ162bad-mouthing
κ163ill-disposed [men]
κ164bad plight
κ165filthiest, most filthy, very filthy
κ166ill-omened

Suda/Κ kappa/κ162

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Κακόθρους

bad-mouthing

Translated by Jennifer Benedict8 Mar 2008Vetting: high4 revisions

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1 note · 12 words

Translation

[Meaning] slanderous; "or [whenever] a raging, bad-mouthing speech from the Danaans attacks."¹

Greek original · Adler’s text

Κακόθρους· διάβολος· ἢ ζαμενὴς λόγος κακόθρους ἐκ Δαναῶν ἐπιβῇ.

Betacode

*kako/qrous: dia/bolos: h)\ zamenh\s lo/gos kako/qrous e)k *danaw=n e)pibh=|.

Notes (1)

The headword adjective, a Sophoclean hapax legomenon (see next note) unattested elsewhere prior to the Byzantine period, is compound of kako/s and qro/os ("noise, report") with Attic contraction of oo to ou.
1Sophocles, Ajax 137-138 (web address 1 below), preceded by the gloss from the scholia there. See also zeta 16 which quotes this passage.

External resources

Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu

Neighbouring entries

κ160Κακοήθειαmaleficence κ161Κακοήθηςmalicious κ162Κακόθρουςbad-mouthing κ163Κακόνοιill-disposed [men]κ164Κακοπάθειαbad plight

Revision history4 revisions · last 16 Mar 2019

16 Mar 2019tweaked link — Catharine Roth
23 Jan 2013Revised — David Whitehead
9 Mar 2008tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
9 Mar 2008Augmented and rearranged notes, cosmetics, added keywords, raised status — William Hutton
8 Mar 2008Translated — Jennifer Benedict

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Κακόθρους (Adler number kappa 162), trans. Jennifer Benedict, 8 Mar 2008. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/kappa/162

Translation by Jennifer Benedict for Suda On Line, revised by Catharine Roth, David Whitehead, William Hutton, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Original on SOL ↗