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κάκ-ωσις [α^], εως, ἡ, (κα^κόω)
A.ill-treatment, “τοῦ ἡγεμόνος” X.An.4.6.3, cf. Stud.Pal.1.8.10 (V A.D.); oppression, “τοῦ λαοῦ” LXX Ex.3.7.
2. esp. in Law, ill-usage, of persons by their natural protectors, “ὁ τῆς κ. νόμος” Lys.13.91, cf. Is.8.32, D.10.40, etc.; “γραφὴ κακώσεως” Id.58.32, Men.328; κ. γονέων, ὀρφανῶν, ἐπικλήρου, οἴκου ὀρφανικοῦ, Arist.Ath.56.6; τοκέων κ. Lycurg.147; also κ. ἐπαρχίας misgovernment, of the Rom. actio repetundarum, Plu.Caes.4.
II. suffering, distress, Th.2.43; “πληρωμάτων” Id.7.4; “αἰκίαι σωμάτων καὶ κακώσεις” Arist.Rh.1386a8, cf. 1385a24; of the effects of disease, Hp. VM17: pl., Id.Aër.19; “αἱ τᾶς σαρκὸς τακομένας κακώσιες” Ti.Locr. 102c, cf. Phld.Mort.21, Sor.1.31.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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