ἡδέος (hedeos)

ἡδέος is an Ancient Greek form of ἡδύς, meaning “sweet, pleasant”. It is the genitive singular masculine adjective.

Found 46 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Xenophon, Anabasis 6.4.4: λιμὴν δʼ ὑπʼ αὐτῇ τῇ πέτρᾳ τὸ πρὸς ἑσπέραν αἰγιαλὸν ἔχων. κρήνη δὲ ἡδέος ὕδατος καὶ ἄφθονος ῥέουσα ἐπʼ αὐτῇ τῇ θαλάττῃ ὑπὸ τῇ ἐπικρατείᾳ τοῦ χωρίου. ξύλα δὲ πολλὰ μὲν καὶ ἄλλα, πάνυ δὲ πολλὰ καὶ καλὰ ναυπηγήσιμα ἐπʼ αὐτῇ τῇ θαλάττῃ.

Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics 2.7: … ὥστʼ εἴ τι λυπηρόν, βίαιον, καὶ εἰ βίαιον, λυπηρόν. τὸ δὲ παρὰ τὴν ἐπιθυμίαν πᾶν λυπηρόν (ἡ γὰρ ἐπιθυμία τοῦ ἡδέοσ)̓, ὥστε βίαιον καὶ ἀκούσιον. τὸ ἄρα κατʼ ἐπιθυμίαν ἑκούσιον· ἐναντία γὰρ ταῦτʼ ἀλλήλοις. ἔτι ἡ μοχθηρία ἀδικώ …

All forms of ἡδύς (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.