The corpus record

ἡδυεπής

eduepes

sweet-speaking

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Where it lives

Theogony 2 · 2.9/10k
Oedipus Tyrannus 1 · 1.08/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k
Iliad 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant — LSJ

sweet-speaking, sweet-sounding

sweet-speaking, Il. 1.248; Ὅμηρος Pi. N. 7.21, cf. AP 9.525.8, etc.; sweet-sounding, λύρα Pi. O. 10(11).93; ὕμνος Id. N. 1.4: voc., ὦ Διὸς ἁδυεπὲς φάτι S. OT 151: poet.fem. pl., ἡδυέπειαι Μοῦσαι Ὀλυμπιάδες Hes. Th. 965, 1021:sg., -έπειασῦριγξ Nonn. D. 10.390.

In the wild

ἡδυεπής · hēdyepēs Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2278)
ἡδυέπειαι · hēdyepeiai Theogony 1021
ἡδυέπειαι · hēdyepeiai Theogony 965–968
ἡδυεπὴς · hēdyepēs Iliad 1.248
ἁδυεπὲς · hadyepes Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 151–152

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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