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in one of the ancient greek lyrics i found a word κἀκατὸν,can't find it in any dictionary, pls help

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Hello! You can't find this term in a dictionary because it is not a single word: as it often happens in Ancient Greek lyrics and in Aeolic dialect in general, the author used a crasis to unite two terms into one, and it is underlined by the graphic presence of the coronis on the first α . So κακατόν stands here for καί εκατόν = "and one hundred" . I assume that it is part of a numeral, like τριάκοντα κακατόν = τριάκοντα καί εκατόν = "one hundred and thirty" . I hope that helped :)
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I see you put a smooth breathing over the alpha, despite the fact that the word starts with a consonant. This is an alternative to putting an apostrophe in the middle of a word to indicate that you elided something. My guess is καὶ + something.
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I love Greek. know how to prounce it but dont know what it kakaton means
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Anacreon
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Whose was the lyric, by the way? :)

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