ἥσθην (hesthen)

ἥσθην is an Ancient Greek form of ἥδομαι, meaning “be pleased, enjoy”.

It can also be a form of ἧμαι, “sit, be seated”. It is the 3rd person dual pluperfect middle indicative.

Found 30 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Hippolytus 1258: λόγοισιν ἥσθην τοῖσδε· νῦν δ’ αἰδούμενος

Plutarch, De sollertia animalium 1: … γὰρ ἐκεῖνος ἔδοξέ μοι τὸ ῥητορικὸν ἐγεῖραι διὰ χρόνου, χαριζόμενος καὶ συνεαρίζων τοῖς μειρακίοις· μάλιστα δ’ ἣσθην τοὺς μονομάχους αὐτοῦ παραθέντος, ὡς οὐχ ἥκιστα τὴν θηρευτικὴν ἄξιον ἐπαινεῖν, ὅτι τοῦ πεφυκότος ἐν ἡμῖν ἢ με …

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.