ἄσμενος: Difference between revisions

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