ἵλεων (hileon)

ἵλεων is an Ancient Greek form of ἴλαος, meaning “gracious”. It is the accusative singular masculine adjective.

Found 47 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Artaxerxes 25.3: … καὶ πολλοὺς μὲν ἀνῄρει διʼ ὀργήν, πλείονας δὲ φοβούμενος, ἡ γὰρ δειλία φονικώτατόν ἐστιν ἐν ταῖς τυραννίσιν, ἵλεων δὲ καὶ πρᾶον καὶ ἀνύποπτον ἡ θαρραλεότης. διὸ καὶ τῶν θηρίων τὰ ἀτιθάσευτα καὶ δυσεξημέρωτα ψοφοδεῆ καὶ δειλά …

Plato, Symposium 206: … λὸν ἁρμόττον. Μοῖρα οὖν καὶ Εἰλείθυια ἡ Καλλονή ἐστι τῇ γενέσει. διὰ ταῦτα ὅταν μὲν καλῷ προσπελάζῃ τὸ κυοῦν, ἵλεών τε γίγνεται καὶ εὐφραινόμενον διαχεῖται καὶ τίκτει τε καὶ γεννᾷ· ὅταν δὲ αἰσχρῷ, σκυθρωπόν τε καὶ λυπούμενον …

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.