Included with: ἄσμενος, η, ον,
well-pleased, glad, always with a Verb, φύγεν ἄ. ἐκ θανάτοιο he was glad to have escaped death, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.350, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.63, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 13.74] Refs 8th c.BC+]: frequently in Trag. and Attic dialect, ἄσμενος δὲ τἂν.. κάμψειεν γόνυ[[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 398; ἐκ θαλάσσης ἀσμένους πεφευγότας 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 398; ἄ. αἱρεθείς 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.12; ἐκάθευδον ἄ. ἥκων ἐξ ἀγροῦ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 1.13; ἀσμένας εἰς τὸν λειμῶνα ἀπιούσας 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 614e: frequently in _dative_, ἐμοὶ δέ κεν ἀσμένῳ εἴη] Refs 5th c.BC+] glad would it make me ! [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.108] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἀσμένῳ δέ σοι.. νὺξ ἀποκρύψει φάος glad wilt thou be when night shuts out the light, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 23; ὥς σφι ἀσμένοισι ἡμέρα ἐπέλαμψε 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.14; ἀσμένῃ δέ μοι.. ἦλθε 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 18; ὡς ἀσμένοισιν ἦλθες 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 582, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 418c, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+] adverb ἀσμένως gladly, readily, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 728, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.36, 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 142, 4th c.BC: Timocles Comicus 14] Refs 4th c.BC+] (this adverb, which is common in later Greek, [[ NT.Act.21.17, etc.] NT], has sometimes been substituted for the adjective, as in [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.21 (variant)): _superlative_ ἀσμεναίτατα (variant{-έστατα}) 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 329c; -έστατα [prev. work] 616a (though the _adjective_ makes -ώτερος, -ώτατος, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 8, compare 2nd c.AD: Phrynichus Atticista “Praeparatio Sophistica” p.18B.). (Not to be connected with ἁνδάνω, since there is no ancient authority for rough breathing ἁσμ-.) ] Refs 5th c.BC+]