A). good, brave, noble, Ep. word freq. in nom., ἐῒς πάϊς Ἀγχίσαο Il. 2.819 , etc.; once in acc. ἐΰν 8.303 ; neut. always ἠΰ (v. ἠΰς)(εὖ only as Adv.): irreg. gen. sg. ἐῆος, παιδὸς ἐῆος 1.393 ; υἷος ἐῆος 15.138 , 24.422 , 550 ; ἀνδρὸς ἐῆος 19.342 ; φιλότητι καὶ αἰδοῖ φωτὸς ἐῆος Od. 14.505 ; always at end of verse (exc. in Od. 15.450 ): freq. with v.l. ἑοῖο , as Il. 18.71 : irreg. gen. pl. ἐάων good things, good fortune, 24.528 ; θεοὶ δωτῆρες ἐάων Od. 8.325 ; δῶτορ ἐάων ib. 335 , h.Hom. 18.12 , 29.8 , cf. Hes. Th. 46 , 111 .((I) ἐῆος: for this form Zenod. read ἑοῖο; but ἐῆος ( = ἀγαθοῦ , Sch. Il. 15.138 ) became, like ἐσθλός (v. ἐσθλός 1.3 ) and φίλος, almost a possess. Pron. of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd pers., and may be retained. Some Gramm. wrongly took εηος to be a form of ἑός ('his') and conversely gave to ἑός ('his') the signf. 'good'( Anon. ap. A.D. Synt. 156.1 , EM 307.33 , 318.1 ): hence the erroneous forms ἑῆος, ἑάων (but ἐΰς rightly), Lex. de Spir. pp.194,196 , 198 , freq. in codd. The reading ἐῆος (ἑῆος) is well attested only where a substituted ἑοῖο would have had to mean my or thy: where the reference is to the 3rd pers. we find υἷος ἑοῖο, πατρὸς ἑοῖο, παιδὸς ἑοῖο almost without v.l., Il. 13.522 , al.( v.l. ἑῆος Il. 14.9 , 18.71 , 138 ).( 2 ) The origin of the forms ἐῆος ἐάων and the variation ἐϋ-: ἠϋ- are obscure: ἐάων perh. had v-, Il. 24.528 .)