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ἥδομαι

to enjoy oneself, take delight, take one's pleasure, Od., etc.—Construction:
1.with participle, ἥσατο πίνων Od.; ἥσθη ἀκούσας he was glad to have heard, Hdt., etc.
2.c. dat., ἥδεσθαί τινι to delight in or at a thing, id=Hdt., etc.; ἐπί τινι Xen., etc.;—rarely c. gen., πώματος ἥσθη he enjoyed the draught, Soph.
3.c. acc. and part., ἥσθην πατέρα τὸν ἀμὸν εὐλογοῦντά σε I was pleased to hear you praising him, id=Soph.
4.part. as an adj. glad, delighted, Ar.: also, like βουλομένωι, ἀσμένωι, in the phrase ἡδομένωι ἐστί μοί τι I am well pleased at the thing happening, Hdt., Plat.

Liddell and Scott. An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1889.

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