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μοχθηρίας (mochtherias)

μοχθηρίας is an Ancient Greek form of μοχθηρία, meaning “wickedness”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun.

Found 46 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Aristides 7.2: … λθόντες εἰς ἄστυ πανταχόθεν ἐξοστρακίζουσι τὸν Ἀριστείδην, ὄνομα τῷ φθόνῳ τῆς δόξης φόβον τυραννίδος θέμενοι. μοχθηρίας γὰρ οὐκ ἦν κόλασις ὁ ἐξοστρακισμός, ἀλλʼ ἐκαλεῖτο μὲν διʼ εὐπρέπειαν ὄγκου καὶ δυνάμεως βαρυτέρας ταπείνωσις …

All forms of μοχθηρία (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.