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 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. Pax 582 , 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.)): Sup. ἀσμεναίτατα ( v.l. -έστατα ) Pl. R. 329c ; -έστατα ib. 616a (though the Adj. makes -ώτερος, -ώτατος, Hp. Art. 8 , cf. Phryn. PS p.18B. ). (Not to be connected with ἁνδάνω, since there is no ancient authority for rough breathing ἁσμ-.)