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ἐσθλά (esthla)

ἐσθλά is an Ancient Greek form of ἐσθλός, meaning “good, brave, noble”. It is the accusative plural neuter adjective.

Found 68 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.803: φάρμακά οἱ, τὰ μὲν ἐσθλά, τὰ δὲ ῥαιστήριʼ, ἔκειτο.

Euripides, Heracleidae 999: ἀκούσεται ’μοί γʼ ἐσθλὰ χρηστὸς ὢν ἀνήρ.

Sophocles, Electra 1093: ἐπεί σʼ ἐφηύρηκα μοίρᾳ μὲν οὐκ ἐν ἐσθλᾷ

All forms of ἐσθλός (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.