ἵλεω (hileo)

ἵλεω is an Ancient Greek form of ἴλαος, meaning “gracious”. It is the dative singular feminine adjective.

Found 38 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Numa 15.6: καὶ τὸν μὲν θεὸν ἀπελθεῖν ἵλεω γενόμενον, τὸν δὲ τόπον Ἰλίκιον ἀπʼ ἐκείνου προσαγορευθῆναι καὶ τὸν καθαρμὸν οὕτω συντελεῖσθαι. ταῦτα μὲν οὖν …

Plutarch, Publicola 19.4: … μένην τῆς πράξεως καὶ παρακελευσαμένην ταῖς ἄλλαις ἐζήτει. ἀκούσας δὲ τὸ ὄνομα τῆς Κλοιλίας προσέβλεψεν αὐτὴν ἵλεῳ καὶ φαιδρῷ τῷ προσώπῳ, καὶ κελεύσας ἵππον ἀχθῆναι τῶν βασιλικῶν κεκοσμημένον εὐπρεπῶς ἐδωρήσατο. τοῦτο ποιοῦν …

Plutarch, Antony 83.4: … ἀπεθέμην, οὐκ ἐμαυτῇ δήπουθεν, ἡ τάλαινα, κόσμον, ἀλλʼ ὅπως Ὀκταουία καὶ Λιβίᾳ τῇ σῇ μικρὰ δοῦσα δι’ ἐκείνων ἵλεώ σου τύχοιμι καὶ πραοτέρου;

All forms of ἴλαος (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.