Ἡδύς

sweet

Translated by David Whitehead15 Nov 2006Vetting: high3 revisions

11 words

[Meaning] simple. They also used to call rather stupid people this.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἡδύς· εὐήθης. ἐκάλουν δὲ οὕτω καὶ τοὺς ὑπομώρους.

Betacode

*(hdu/s: eu)h/qhs. e)ka/loun de\ ou(/tw kai\ tou\s u(pomw/rous.

The headword has the same or similar glossing in other lexica, and in the scholia to Plato, Republic 527D, where it occurs in this sense. See generally LSJ s.v. h(du/s, II.1.