ἐσθλός

esthlos

good

Appears 7 times across Aristotle's works.

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Nicomachean Ethics 4
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Book I 1
Chapter 4 1095a14–1095b13

1095b11
Book II 1
Chapter 6 1106a14–1107a27

1106b35
Book IX 2
Chapter 12 1171b29–1172a15

1172a13
1172a14
Poetics 1
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Chapter 21 1457a31–1458a17

1457b12
Politics 1
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Book II 1
Chapter 7 1266a31–1267b21

1267a2
Rhetoric 1
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Book I 1
Chapter 9 1366a23–1368a37

1367a12

Dictionary (LSJ)

ἐσθλός, ή, όν, Aeol. ἔσλος Sapph. 28, Alc. 96 : Dor. ἐσλός, ά, όν, Pi. P. 8.73, etc. (never in B.); Arc. ἑσλός Inscr.Olymp. 266 (v B. C.) : Comp. and Sup. -ότερος, -ότατος, AP 9.156 (Antiphil.), 6.240 (Phil.) : —poet. Adj., A. = ἀγαθός, good of his kind, ἐ. ἐν σταδίῃ Il. 15.283 : later c. inf., A.R. 1.106, etc. : hence I. of persons, brave, stout, ἐσθλὸν ἐνὶ προμάχοισι Il. 4.458, etc. ; opp. δειλός, Hes. Op. 214 ; noble, opp. κακός, οὔ τινα γὰρ τίεσκον..οὐ κακὸν οὐδὲ μὲν ἐ. Od. 22.415 ; πένιχρος οὐδεὶς πέλετʼ ἔσλος οὐδὲ τίμιος Alc. 49 ; τόκηες Id. Supp. 25.12 ; εἴτʼ εὐγενὴς πέφυκας εἴτʼ ἐσθλῶν κακή S. Ant. 38 ; ἐσθλοῦ πατρὸς παῖς Id. Ph. 96 ; ἀπʼ ἐσθλῶν δωμάτων E. Andr. 772 (lyr.), etc. ; of horses, wellbred, Il. 23.348. 2. morally good, faithful, φίλος S. OT 611 ; εἰς ἡμᾶς γεγώς Id. El. 24 ; τινι Naumach. ap. Stob. 4.23.7 ; κύνα ἐσθλὴν ἐκείνῳ, πολεμίαν τοῖς δύσφροσιν A. Ag. 608. 3. like ἐΰς and φίλος, weakened almost to a possess. pron., ἐσθλὸν ἀνεψιὸν ἐξεναρίξας Il. 16. 573, cf. 5.469, Od. 3.379. II. of things, good of their kind, φάρμακα, κτήματα, κειμήλια, Il. 11.831, Od. 2.312, Il. 9.330, etc. 2. of mind, qualities, etc., νόος Od. 7.73 ; βουλή Il. 9.76 ; ἔπος 1.108 ; κλέος 5.3, Pi. P. 4.175 : freq. in neut. pl., μυρίʼ..ἐσθλὰ ἔοργε Il. 2.272 ; ἔσθλʼ ἀγορεύοντες, κακὰ δὲ φρεσὶ βυσσοδόμευον Od. 17.66 ; ἔσλων ἢ κάλων Sapph. 28, cf. Supp. 2.4. 3. fortunate, lucky, ὄρνιθες Od. 24.311 ; ὕπαρ 19.547 ; χάρματα Pi. O. 2.19 ; γάμοι E. IA 609 ; τύχη S. OC 1506 ; ἀράσαντο πάμπαν ἔσλα τῷ γάμβρῳ Sapph. 51.4 ; ἐσθλόν, τό, good luck, prosperity, opp. κακόν, Il. 24.530 ; παρὰ καὶ κακῷ ἐσθλὸν ἔθηκεν Od. 15.488 ; ἐσλὸν βαθύ Pi. O. 12.12. 4. Subst. ἐσθλά, τά, goods, πυρὴν ἐμπλησέμεν ἐσθλῶν Od. 10.523 ; εἴ τις ἐσλὰ πέπαται Pi. P. 8.73. 5. ἐσθλόν [ἐστι] c. inf., it is good, expedient to.., Il. 24.301 : also pl., οὐ γὰρ ἐσθλὰ..κερτομέειν Archil. 64.—Poet. word, used by X. Cyr. 1.5.9, Chrysipp.Stoic. 3.60, Luc. Syr.D. 19 (Ion.), etc.

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