ἄσμενος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=η, ον, [[well-pleased]], [[glad]], always with a verb, [[φύγεν ἄσμενος ἐκ θανάτοιο]] = [[he was glad to have escaped death]], Il.20.350, cf. Od. 9.63, Pi.''O.''13.74: freq. in Trag. and Att., ἄσμενος δὲ τἂν.. κάμψειεν γόνυ A.''Pr.''398; ἐκ θαλάσσης ἀσμένους πεφευγότας E.''Hel.''398; ἄ. αἱρεθείς Th.6.12; ἐκάθευδον ἄ. ἥκων ἐξ ἀγροῦ Lys.1.13; ἀσμένας εἰς τὸν λειμῶνα ἀπιούσας [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Republic|R.]]'' 614e: freq. in dat., [[ἐμοὶ δέ κεν ἀσμένῳ εἴη]] = [[glad would it make me]]! Il.14.108; [[ἀσμένῳ δέ σοι ἡ ποικιλείμων νὺξ ἀποκρύψει φάος]] = [[glad wilt thou be when night shuts out the light]], A.''Pr.''23; ὥς σφι ἀσμένοισι ἡμέρα ἐπέλαμψε [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]8.14; ἀσμένῃ δέ μοι.. ἦλθε S.''Tr.''18; ὡς ἀσμένοισιν ἦλθες Ar.''Pax''582, cf. [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Cratylus|Cra.]]''418c, etc. Adv. [[ἀσμένως]] = [[gladly]], [[readily]], A.''Pr.''728, D.18.36, Alex.142, Timocl.14 (this Adv., which is common in later Greek, ''Act.Ap.''21.17, etc., has sometimes been substituted for the Adj., as in Th.4.21 ([[varia lectio|v.l.]])): Sup. [[ἀσμεναίτατα]] ([[varia lectio|v.l.]] [[ἀσμενέστατα]]) [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Republic|R.]]'' 329c; [[ἀσμενέστατα]] ib.616a (though the Adj. makes [[ἀσμενώτερος]], [[ἀσμενώτατος]], Hp.''Art.''8, cf. Phryn.''PS''p.18B.). (Not to be connected with [[ἁνδάνω]], since there is no ancient authority for rough breathing ἁσμ-.)