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ἡδύποτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἡδύποτος ἡδύποτον

Structure: ἡδυποτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. sweet to drink

Examples

  • τῷ δὲ κωθωνιζομένῳ δίδωσι τὸν ἡδύποτον, οὕτω καλέσασ αὐτόν· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 17 3:2)
  • οἶνοσ μὲν πρώτιστα θοὴν ἀνὰ νῆα μέλαιναν ἡδύποτοσ κελάρυζ’ εὐώδησ, ὤρνυτο δ’ ὀδμὴ ἀμβροσίη· (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 5:5)
  • ἄλλησ δὴ κρήνησ πίομαι ἡδυπότου. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 1386-1389539)
  • πολλάκισ οἶνον ἔπεμψασ ἐμοί, καὶ πολλάκισ ἔγνων σοὶ χάριν, ἡδυπότῳ νέκταρι τερπόμενοσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 3961)

Synonyms

  1. sweet to drink

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

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