Slanderous; "or [whenever] a raging, bad-mouthing speech from the Danaans attacks..."[1]
The headword, a Sophoclean
hapax (see next note) unattested elsewhere prior to the Byzantine period, is compound of
κακός and
θρόος ("noise, report") with Attic contraction of
οο to
ου .
[1]
Sophocles,
Ajax 137-138 (web address 1 below), preceded by the gloss from the
scholia there. See also
zeta 16 which quotes this passage.
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