ἐσθλόν (esthlon)

ἐσθλόν is an Ancient Greek form of ἐσθλός, meaning “good, brave, noble”. It is the accusative singular masculine adjective.

Found 131 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.4.76: … , ἐὰν ἁμάρτῃ, διπλῆν εἶναι τὴν ζημίαν· ἵνα μὴ μεθύωσι, πολλοῦ κατὰ τὴν νῆσον οἴνου γινομένου. εἶπέ τε χαλεπὸν ἐσθλὸν ἔμμεναι· οὗ καὶ Σιμωνίδης μέμνηται λέγων· ἄνδρʼ ἀγαθὸν ἀλαθέως γενέσθαι χαλεπόν, τὸ Πιττάκειον.

Euripides, Hecuba 327: τιμᾶν τὸν ἐσθλόν, ἀμαθίαν ὀφλήσομεν·

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.