- ἄσμενος
- ἄσμενος, η, ον,A well-pleased, glad, always with a Verb, φύγεν ἄ. ἐκ θανάτοιο he was glad to have escaped death, Il.20.350, cf. Od. 9.63, Pi.O.13.74: freq. in Trag. and [dialect] 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 Pl.R.614e
: freq. in dat., ἐμοὶ δέ κεν ἀσμένῳ εἴη glad would it make me ! Il.14.108; ἀσμένῳ δέ σοι . . νὺξ ἀποκρύψει φάος glad wilt thou be when night shuts out the light, A.Pr.23;ὥς σφι ἀσμένοισι ἡμέρα ἐπέλαμψε Hdt.8.14
;ἀσμένῃ δέ μοι . . ἦλθε S.Tr.18
;ὡς ἀσμένοισιν ἦλθες Ar.Pax582
, cf. Pl.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 sts. been substituted for the Adj., as in Th.4.21 (v. l.)): [comp] Sup. ἀσμεναίτατα (v.l. -έστατα) Pl.R.329c; -έστατα ib.616a (though the Adj. makes -ώτερος, -ώτατος, Hp.Art.8, cf. Phryn.PSp.18B.). (Not to be connected with ἁνδάνω, since there is no ancient authority for rough breathing ἁσμ-.)
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