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ἦδος

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἦδος ἦδεος

Structure: ἠδο (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: a(nda/nw

Sense

  1. delight, enjoyment, pleasure, pleasure from or in, delight, from?

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • καὶ γὰρ ἀνόητον τοῦτο δοκεῖ, τὸ μὴ ἀπολαύειν τῶν χωρὶσ ὀνείδουσ ἡδέων, καὶ ἄδικον ἀποστρέφεσθαι τὰσ τῆσ φύσεωσ χάριτασ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 5:8)
  • καὶ μὴν εἰ κατανοήσεισ τὰ τῶν ἀνθρώπων πράγματα, εὑρ́οισ ἂν αὐτὰ οὔτε ἐλπίδοσ οὔτε φόβου ἄξια, παυσομένων πάντωσ καὶ τῶν ἀνιαρῶν καὶ τῶν ἡδέων. (Lucian, (no name) 20:3)
  • ἢν γοῦν τοὺσ βασιλέασ αὐτῶν ἴδῃ τισ, οἵπερ εὐδαιμονέστατοι εἶναι δοκοῦσιν, ἔξω τοῦ ἀβεβαίου ὡσ φὴσ καὶ ^ ἀμφιβόλου τῆσ τύχησ, πλείω τῶν ἡδέων τὰ ἀνιαρὰ εὑρήσει προσόντα αὐτοῖσ, φόβουσ καὶ ταραχὰσ καὶ μίση καὶ ἐπιβουλὰσ καὶ ὀργὰσ καὶ κολακείασ· (Lucian, Contemplantes, (no name) 18:2)
  • ἀπόλαυσισ μέν γε οὐδὲ ὄναρ τῶν ἡδέων, ἀλλὰ δόξα μόνη καὶ πορφυρὶσ χρυσῷ ποικίλη καὶ ταινία λευκὴ περὶ τῷ μετώπῳ καὶ δορυφόροι προϊόντεσ, τὰ δ̓ ἄλλα κάματοσ ἀφόρητοσ καὶ ἀηδία πολλή, καὶ ἢ χρηματίζειν δεῖ τοῖσ παρα τῶν πολεμίων ἥκουσιν ἢ δικάζειν ἢ καταπέμπειν τοῖσ ὑπηκόοισ ἐπιτάγματα, καὶ ἤτοι ἀφέστηκέ τι ἔθνοσ ἢ ἐπελαύνουσί τινεσ τῶν ἔξω τῆσ ἀρχῆσ. (Lucian, 67:2)
  • δίκαιον γὰρ εἶναι ἰσοτιμίαν καθεστηκέναι καὶ μὴ τῷ μὲν πλέον, τῷ δὲ μηδ̓ ὅλωσ μετεῖναι τῶν ἡδέων. (Lucian, Saturnalia, letter 3 1:3)

Synonyms

  1. delight

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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