ἡδονή (edone)

Where it lives

Phoenissae 2 · 2.07/10k
Electra 1 · 1.32/10k
Iphigenia in Tauris 1 · 1.21/10k
Electra 1 · 1.15/10k
Iphigenia in Aulis 1 · 1.12/10k

What it meant — LSJ

enjoyment, pleasure, malicious pleasure, to pleasure, so as to humour you?, pleasure, satisfied with, as to please another, a pleasure, delight, pleasure, with pleasure

enjoyment, pleasure, first in Simon. 71, S. l.c., Hdt. 1.24, al.; prop. of sensual pleasures, αἱ τοῦ σώματος or περὶ τὸ σῶμα ἡ., X. HG 4.8.22, 6.1.4; αἱ κατὰ τὸ σῶμα ἡ. Pl. R. 328d; σωματικαὶ ἡ. Arist. EN 1151a13; αἱ περὶ πότους καὶ περὶ ἐδωδὰς ἡ. Pl. R. 389e; but also ἀκοῆς ἡ. Th. 3.38; ἡ ἀπὸ τοῦ εἰδέναι ἡ. Pl. R. 582b; of malicious pleasure, ἡ ἐπὶ τοῖς τῶν φίλων κακοῖς, ἐπὶ ταῖς λοιδορίαις ἡ., Id. Phlb. 50a, D. 18.138; ἡδονῇ ἡσσᾶσθαι, ἡδοναῖς χαρίζεσθαι, to give way to pleasure, Th. l.c., Pl.

2 a pleasure, sweetmeats

concrete, a pleasure, S. El. 873 (pl.), Ar. Nu. 1072 (pl.); ἡδοναὶ τραγημάτων sweetmeats, Sopat. 17.

3 desires after pleasure, pleasant lusts

pl., desires after pleasure, pleasant lusts, X. Mem. 1.2.23, Ep.Tit. 3.3, al.

II taste, flavour

in Ion. Philosophers, taste, flavour, usu. joined with χροιή, Diog.Apoll. 5, Anaxag. 4 (pl.), cf. Arist. PA 660b9, Thphr. HP 4.4.7, LXX Nu. 11.8, Eudem. ap. Ath. 9.369f, Mnesith. ap. eund. 8.357f.

In the wild

ἁδονάν · hadonan Euripides, Electra 125 (DIORISIS sentence 50)
ἁδονάν · hadonan Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 2 (DIORISIS sentence 79)
ἁδονὰν · hadonan Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris (DIORISIS sentence 493)
ἁδονὰν · hadonan Euripides, Phoenissae *)ioka/sth (DIORISIS sentence 140)
ἁδονὰν · hadonan Euripides, Phoenissae *)ioka/sth (DIORISIS sentence 135)
ἁδονὰν · hadonan Sophocles, Electra 1277–1278

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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