The corpus record

ἦδος

edos · τό

delight, pleasure

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Where it lives

Athenian Constitution 1 · 0.61/10k
History 9 · 0.6/10k
Iliad 3 · 0.27/10k
Odyssey 2 · 0.23/10k
Anabasis 1 · 0.18/10k
Metaphysics 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant — LSJ

delight, pleasure, delight

delight, pleasure, οὐδέ τι δαιτὸς ἐσθλῆς ἔσσεται ἦ. Il. 1.576; ἀλλὰ μίνυνθα ἡμέων ἔσσεται ἦ. 11.318; ἀλλὰ τί μοι τῶν ἦ.; what delight have I therefrom? 18.80; αὐτὰρ ἐμοὶ τί τόδʼ ἦ.; Od. 24.95, cf. Theoc. 16.40, A.R. 3.314.—In this sense almost confined to Ep. and nom. sg.; in late Prose, πρὸς τὸ ἦ. Alex.Aphr. Pr. 1.20.

II vinegar

= ὄξος, vinegar, used as a flavouring, τοῦτο μόνον Ἀττικοὶ τῶν ἡδυσμάτων ἦ. καλοῦσι Ath. 2.67c, cf. Poll. 6.65, Eust. 1417.19, prob. l. in Antiph. 134.4—Dor. form ἇδος (in both senses), EM 18.12, Hsch. s.v. γᾶδος.

In the wild

ʼἤδη · ʼēdē Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..14 (DIORISIS sentence 178)
ʼἤδη · ʼēdē Aristotle, Metaphysics book 13 (DIORISIS sentence 3617)
ἦδος · ēdos Iliad 1.576
ἦδος · ēdos Iliad 11.318
ἦδος · ēdos Iliad 18.80
ἦδος · ēdos Odyssey 18.404

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Where it came from

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