ἐσθλῶν (esthlon)

ἐσθλῶν is an Ancient Greek form of ἐσθλός, meaning “good, brave, noble”. It is the genitive plural masculine adjective.

Found 39 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Heracleidae 299: γαμεῖν τʼ ἀπʼ ἐσθλῶν· ὃς δὲ νικηθεὶς πόθῳ

Xenophon, Symposium 2.4: … αὶ πόθεν ἄν τις τοῦτο τὸ χρῖμα λάβοι; οὐ μὰ Δίʼ, ἔφη, οὐ παρὰ τῶν μυροπωλῶν. ἀλλὰ πόθεν δή; ὁ μὲν Θέογνις ἔφη·Ἐσθλῶν μὲν γὰρ ἀπʼ ἐσθλὰ διδάξεαι· ἢν δὲ κακοῖσισυμμίσγῃς, ἀπολεῖς καὶ τὸν ἐόντα νόον.

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.