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ἡδονή , Dor. ἁδονά (or in Trag. chorus ἡδονά S.OT1339), ἡ, (ἥδομαι)
A.enjoyment, pleasure, first in Simon.71, S.l.c., Hdt.1.24, al.; prop. of sensual pleasures, αἱ τοῦ σώματος or περὶ τὸ σῶμα ἡ., X.HG 4.8.22,6.1.4; αἱ κατὰ τὸ σῶμα ἡ. Pl.R.328d; σωματικαὶ ἡ. Arist.EN 1151a13; αἱ περὶ πότους καὶ περὶ ἐδωδὰς ἡ. Pl.R.389e; but also ἀκοῆς ἡ. Th.3.38; ἡ ἀπὸ τοῦ εἰδέναι ἡ. Pl.R.582b; of malicious pleasure, ἡ ἐπὶ τοῖς τῶν φίλων κακοῖς, ἐπὶ ταῖς λοιδορίαις ἡ., Id.Phlb.50a, D.18.138; ἡδονῇ ἡσσᾶσθαι, ἡδοναῖς χαρίζεσθαι, to give way to pleasure, Th. l.c., Pl.Lg.727c; κότερα ἀληθείη χρήσομαι ἢ ἡδονῆ; shall I speak truly or so as to humour you? Hdt.7.101; εἰ ὑμῖν ἡδονὴ τοῦ ἡγεμονεύειν ib.160; ἡ. εἰσέρχεταί τιϝι εἰ . . one feels pleasure at the thought that . . , Id.1.24; ἡδονὴν ἔχειν τινός to be satisfied with . . , S.OC 1604; ἡδονὴν ἔχει, φέρει, Pherecr.145.2, Alex.263.6; ἡδονὴ ἰδέσθαι (like θαῦμα ἰδέσθαι), of a temple, Hdt.2.137: with Preps. in Adv. sense, “δαίμοσιν πρὸς ἡδονήν” A.Pr.494; ὃ μέν ἐστι πρὸς ἡ. D.18.4; πρὸς ἡ. λέγειν to speak so as to please another, S.El.921, Th.2.65; “δημηγορεῖν” D.4.38; “οὐ πρὸς ἡ. οἱ ἦν τὰ ἀγγελλόμενα” Hdt.3.126; “πάντα πρὸς ἡ. ἀκούοντας” D.8.34; later “πρὸς ἡδονῆς εἶναί τινι” Parth.8.8, Lib. Or.12.1; “καθ᾽ ἡδονὴν κλύειν” S.Tr.197; καθ᾽ ἡδονήν [ἐστί] μοι c. inf., A.Pr.263; καθ᾽ ἡ. τι δρᾶν, ποιεῖν, Th.2.37,53; καθ᾽ ἡδονὰς τῷ δήμῳ τὰ πράγματα ἐνδιδόναι ib.65; ἐν ἡδονῇ ἐστί τινι it is a pleasure or delight to another, Hdt.4.139; folld. by inf., E.IT494; by acc. et inf., Hdt.7.15; ἐν ἡδονῇ ἔχειν τινάς to take pleasure in them, Th.3.9; ἐν ἡδονῇ ἄρχοντες, opp. οἱ λυπηροί, Id.1.99; “μεθ᾽ ἡδονῆς” Id.4.19; “ὑφ᾽ ἡδονῆς” S.Ant.648, etc.; ὑπὸ τῆς ἡ. Alex.24, 110.23: as dat. modi, ἡδονᾷ with pleasure, S. OT1339 (lyr.), cf. Hdt.2.137 (f.l.).
2. concrete, a pleasure, S.El. 873 (pl.), Ar.Nu.1072 (pl.); ἡδοναὶ τραγημάτων sweetmeats, Sopat. 17.
3. Pl., desires after pleasure, pleasant lusts, X.Mem.1.2.23, Ep.Tit.3.3, al.
II. in Ion. Philosophers, taste, flavour, usu. joined with χροιή, Diog.Apoll.5, Anaxag.4 (pl.), cf. Arist.PA660b9, Thphr. HP4.4.7, LXX Nu.11.8, Eudem. ap. Ath.9.369f, Mnesith. ap. eund.8.357f.
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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