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ἡδύν-ω

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season, make pleasant, delight, coax, gratify

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Where it lives

Canticum 1 · 5.14/10k
Ars Poetica 3 · 2.97/10k
Osee 1 · 2.65/10k
Symposium 2 · 2.1/10k
Proverbia 1 · 0.9/10k
Psalmi 3 · 0.88/10k
Job 1 · 0.75/10k
Siracides 1 · 0.54/10k
Theaetetus 1 · 0.44/10k
Jeremias 1 · 0.36/10k
Politics 1 · 0.15/10k
Republic 1 · 0.11/10k

What it meant

ἡδύν-ω · hēdyn-ō — LSJ

season, make pleasant

season a dish, c. acc., [κόκκυγας] Epich. 164; ὄψον Pl. Tht. l.c.; κρόμμυον . . οὐ μόνον σῖτον ἀλλὰ καὶ ποτὸν ἡδύνει X. Smp. 4.8; make pleasant, γεῦσιν, οἴνους, Thphr. Od. 9, 10; even of salt (cf. ἡδονή II), Arist. Mete. 359a34.

metaph., ἡ. θῶπας λόγους Pl. Tht. l.c.; ὁ ποιητὴς ἡ. τὸ ἄτοπον Arist. Po. 1460b2:—Pass., τὴν ἡδυσμένην μοῦσαν παραδέξῃ ἐν μέλεσιν Pl. R. 607a, cf. Arist. Po. 1449b28, Pol. 1340b17, D.H. Comp. 25; τοὺς λόγους ἡδύνεσθαι ἄν τι ὑπὸ τῶν φθόγγων X. Smp. 6.4.

2 delight, coax, gratify

delight, coax, gratify, κόλαξ ἥδυνέ τινα λόγῳ Diph. 24; ἡ. τὴν ἀκοήν D.H. Comp. 14:—Pass., Timo 17 [791].

In the wild

ἡδύνων · hēdynōn Aristotle, Ars Poetica 24
ἡδυσμένῳ · hēdysmenōi Aristotle, Ars Poetica 6
ἡδυσμένον · hēdysmenon Aristotle, Ars Poetica 6
ἡδυσμένων · hēdysmenōn Aristotle, Politics 1340b (DIORISIS sentence 3093)
ἡδυσμένην · hēdysmenēn Plato, Republic 10.607 (DIORISIS sentence 6130)
ἡδῦναι · hēdynai Plato, Theaetetus 175

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