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ἅδην , Ep. and Ion. ἄδην , Adv.
A.to one's fill, “ἔδμεναι ἄ.” Il.5.203,al.; “ἐμπιμπλάμενοι σίτων ἅ.” Pl.Plt.272c; “πιοῦσ᾽ ἄ. χορεύω” Anacreont.14.30.
2. c. gen., οἵ μιν ἄ. ἐλόωσι . . πολέμοιο will drive him to satiety of war, Il.13.315; “Τρῶας ἄ. ἐλάσαι πολέμοιο” 19.423; “ἔτι μίν φημι ἄ. ἐλάαν κακότητος” Od.5.290; ἅ. ἔλειξεν αἵματος licked his fill of blood, A.Ag.828; “καὶ τούτων μὲν ἅ.” Pl.Euthphr.11e, cf. R.341c, etc.; ἅ. ἔχειν τινός to have enough of a thing, be weary of it, Id.Chrm.153d, cf. E.Ion975; “τοῦ φαγεῖν” Arist.Pr.950a15; “ἅ. ἔχουσιν οἱ λόγοι” Pl.R. 541b: c. part., “ἄ. εἶχον κτείνοντες” Hdt.9.39.
3. unceasingly, A.R.2.82, cf.4.1216.
4. = ἅλις, ἄ. ἐγένοντο μύκητες Call.Fr.47. [α^, except in the phrase ἔδμεναι ἄδην; v. sub ἁδέω.] (From s[schwa]-δην, cf. Lat. s[acaron]-tis.）
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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