ἡσθείς (hestheis)

ἡσθείς is an Ancient Greek form of ἥδομαι, meaning “be pleased, enjoy”. It is the aorist passive participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 109 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.3.73: … υκες, ἔχω χάριν, οὕνεκεν υἱὸς Χίλωνος πυγμῇ χλωρὸν ἕλεν κότινον. εἰ δʼ ὁ πατὴρ στεφανοῦχον ἰδὼν τέκνον ἤμυσεν ἡσθείς, οὐ νεμεσητόν· ἐμοὶ τοῖος ἴτω θάνατος. ἐπὶ δὲ τῆς εἰκόνος αὐτοῦ ἐπιγέγραπται τόδε· τόνδε δοριστέφανος Σπάρτα …

Euripides, Helen 537: ἡσθεῖσʼ ἐπεί νιν εἶπέ μοι σεσῳσμένον.

Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 11.59: Ἡσθεὶς ἐπὶ τούτοις ὁ βασιλεὺς ἀναστὰς κατεφίλησέν τε αὐτὸν καὶ τοῖς τοπάρχαις καὶ σατράπαις γράφει κελεύων προπέμψαι τὸν Ζοροβάβηλον καὶ τοὺς σὺν αὐτῷ μέλλοντας ἐπὶ τὴν οἰκοδομὴν ἐξιέναι τοῦ ναοῦ.

All forms of ἥδομαι (conjugation 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.