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κἀγαθός (kagathos)

κἀγαθός is an Ancient Greek form of ἀγαθός, meaning “good, noble, brave”. It is the nominative singular masculine adjective.

Found 54 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 6.1.8: … ιὰ τοῦ τρίβωνος τὴν φιλοδοξίαν. ἐρωτηθεὶς ὑπό του, καθά φησι Φανίας ἐν τῷ Περὶ τῶν Σωκρατικῶν, τί ποιῶν καλὸς κἀγαθὸς ἔσοιτο, ἔφη, εἰ τὰ κακὰ ἃ ἔχεις ὅτι φευκτά ἐστι μάθοις παρὰ τὼν εἰδότων. πρὸς τὸν ἐπαινοῦντα τρυφήν, ἐχθρῶν π …

Plutarch, Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata 26.22: … ὅτι παῖδας ἐκ πλειόνων ποιεῖται γυναικῶν, οὐκοῦν ἔφη πολλοὺς ἔχων περὶ τῆς βασιλείας ἀνταγωνιστὰς γενοῦ καλὸς κἀγαθός, ἵνα μὴ διʼ ἐμὲ τῆς βασιλείας τύχῃς ἀλλὰ διὰ σεαυτόν ἐκέλευε δʼ αὐτὸν Ἀριστοτέλει προσέχειν καὶ φιλοσοφεῖν, ὅ …

Sappho, Poems and Fragments (ed. Edmonds 1922) 58.2: ὀ δὲ κἄγαθος αὔτικα καὶ κάλος ἔσσεται . . .

All forms of ἀγαθός (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.