ἥσθη (hesthe)

ἥσθη is an Ancient Greek form of ἥδομαι, meaning “be pleased, enjoy”. It is the 3rd person singular aorist passive indicative.

Found 89 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.129.1: τοσαῦτα μὲν ἡ γραφὴ ἐδήλου, Ξέρξης δὲ ἥσθη τε τῇ ἐπιστολῇ καὶ ἀποστέλλει Ἀρτάβαζον τὸν Φαρνάκου ἐπὶ θάλασσαν καὶ κελεύει αὐτὸν τήν τε Δασκυλῖτιν σατραπε …

Xenophon, On the Art of Horsemanship 10.6: … όταν μὲν τοῦτον λάβῃ, ἀσχάλλων τῇ τραχύτητι διὰ τοῦτο ἀφίῃ, ὅταν δὲ τὸν λεῖον μεταλάβῃ, τῇ μὲν λειότητι αὐτοῦ ἡσθῇ, ἃ δʼ ἂν ὑπὸ τοῦ τραχέος παιδευθῇ, ταὐτὰ δὲ καὶ ἐν τῷ λείῳ ποιῇ.

Arrian, Ἀλεξάνδρου Ἀνάβασις 1.12.2: … ἐς ἀνθρώπους τὰ Ἀλεξάνδρου ἔργα ἐπαξίως, οὔτʼ οὖν καταλογάδην, οὔτε τις ἐν μέτρῳ ἐποίησεν· ἀλλʼ οὐδὲ ἐν μέλει ᾔσθη Ἀλέξανδρος, ἐν ὅτῳ Ἱέρων τε καὶ Γέλων καὶ Θήρων καὶ πολλοὶ ἄλλοι οὐδέν τι Ἀλεξάνδρῳ ἐπεοικότες, ὥστε πολὺ μεῖ …

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.