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Alas, with Proust I slipped into a crevasse and never made the summit; with David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest I hurled myself from a ledge a third of the way up, and counted Callimachus a wise man for his 'Mega biblion, mega kakon'.

languagehat.com: ROBERT MUSIL. 2005

I quoted that proverb to him 'mega biblion, mega kakon' (big book, big evil) and he threatened to take it away and give me a smaller one.

Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003

But what is the meaning of kakon, which has played so great a part in your previous discourse?

The CRATYLUS Plato 1975

Says he, Katareontai de, tade legontes, tēsi kephalēsin ei ti melloi ē sphisi toisi thuousi, ē Aiguptō tē sunapasē kakon genesthai es kephalēn tautēn trapesthai; — “They laid these imprecations on their heads, that if any evil were happening towards the sacrificer, or all Egypt, let it be all turned and laid on this devoted head.”

A Brief Declaration and Vindication of The Doctrine of the Trinity 1616-1683 1965

* [491] Katareontai de, tade legontes, tēsi kephalēsin ei ti melloi ē sphisi toisi thuousi, ē Aiguptō tē sunapasē kakon genesthai es kephalēn tautēn trapesthai;

A Brief Declaration and Vindication of The Doctrine of the Trinity 1616-1683 1965

"[Greek: Otan tin 'Euraes Eupathounta ton kakon ginske touton to telei taeroumenon]."

Notes and Queries, Number 39, July 27, 1850 Various

'Evil in evil wise' ([Greek: kakon kak_os]) is found in a line of Lynceus, a fourth-century tragedian.

The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 2 384 BC-322 BC Demosthenes 1912

Nonne adulescentulus [Greek: doious pithous ton men hena kakon ton d'heteron eaon] in Iouis limine iacere didicisti?

The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

[2616] Text, ton gar hekousion kakon ta akousia, &c.

NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus 1898

* Autoi ton kakon archen agathon onta ton Theon poiousi: [1952] 1

NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895