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ἡδίους (hedious)

ἡδίους is an Ancient Greek form of ἡδύς, meaning “sweet, pleasant”. It is the nominative plural masculine comparative adjective.

Found 27 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Camillus 32.5: … ερ ἄλλο τι τῶν ἱερῶν ἄψαυστον ἐφύλαττον. τοῦτο δὴ τότε τῶν ἄλλων ἀπολωλότων ἀνευρόντες διαπεφευγὸς τὴν φθοράν ἡδίους ἐγένοντο ταῖς ἐλπίσιν ὑπὲρ τῆς Ῥώμης, ὡς ἀίδιον αὐτῇ τὴν σωτηρίαν τοῦ σημείου βεβαιοῦντος.

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.