ἡδύν-ω,
aorist 1 ἥδῡνα [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 175e, 4th-3rd c.BC: Diphilus Comicus 24 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, aorist 1 ἡδύνθην [[ 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 90 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]: perfect ἥδυσμαι [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus (see. below)] Refs 5th c.BC+], infinitive ἡδύνθαι [[ 9th c.AD: Photius Legal icographus, etc. ] Refs 9th c.AD+]: (ἡδύς):—season a dish, with accusative, [κόκκυγας] [[ 5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 164; ὄψον 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Tht.” [same place]; κρόμμυον.. οὐ μόνον σῖτον ἀλλὰ καὶ ποτὸν ἡδύνει 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 4.8 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; make pleasant, γεῦσιν, οἴνους, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Odoribus” 9, 10 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; even of salt [[compare (ἡδονή 11), 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 359a34. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II metaphorically, ἡ. θῶπας λόγους [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Tht.” [same place]; ὁ ποιητὴς ἡ. τὸ ἄτοπον 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Poetica” 1460b2 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, τὴν ἡδυσμένην μοῦσαν παραδέξῃ ἐν μέλεσιν [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 607a, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Poetica” 1449b28, “Pol.” 1340b17, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 25; τοὺς λόγους ἡδύνεσθαι ἄν τι ὑπὸ τῶν φθόγγων 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 6.4. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 delight, coax, gratify, κόλαξ ἥδυνέ τινα λόγῳ [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Diphilus Comicus 24; ἡ. τὴν ἀκοήν 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 14:] Refs 4th c.BC+] —passive, [[Timo 17. ] Refs]