A.“-ῆα” Herod.4.2), ύ （“-ύν” IG14.1890), sweet to the taste or smell, “νέκταρ” Il.1.598; “οἶνος” Epich.124, etc.; “γλυκὺ ὄζειν” Cratin.Jun. 1, prob. in Crates Com.2; opp. ὀξύς, Hp.Vict.2.55; opp. δριμύς, Plu. 2.708e: mostly metaph., even in Hom., pleasant, delightful, ἵμερος, ὕπνος, Il.3.139, Od.2.395; “γ. αἰών” 5.152, Hdt.7.46; “πόλεμος γλυκίων γένετ᾽ ἠὲ νέεσθαι” Il.2.453; “οὐδὲν γλύκιον ἧς πατρίδος οὐδὲ τοκήων” Od.9.34, cf. Pi.N.5.2, E.Med.1036, etc.; γλυκύ [ἐστι], c. inf., A.Pr.698, Alex. 210; “θανεῖν γλύκιστον” B.3.47; “ὅτῳ . . μηδὲν ἦν ἰδεῖν γλυκύ” S.OT1335 (lyr.), cf.1390.
b. of water, sweet, fresh, Xenoph.1.8, etc.; opp. πικρός, Hdt.4.52; opp. ἁλμυρός, Arist.Mete.355a33, etc.
2. after Hom. (but v. supr.), of persons, sweet, dear, γλυκεῖα (v.l. -ῆα）“ μᾶτερ” Sapph. 90; “γλυκεῖαι παῖδες ἀρχαίου Σκότου” S.OC106: c. inf., “γ. φρὴν συμπόταισιν ὁμιλεῖν” Pi.P.6.52; freq. in epitaphs, IG14.1472 (Sup.), etc.; also “ὑπὲρ τῆς γλυκυτάτης πατρίδος τελευτῆσαι” POxy.33i13 (ii A. D.); ὦ γλυκύτατε my dear fellow, Ar.Ach.462, cf. Ec.124; sts. in bad sense, simple, silly, ὡς γ. εἶ! Pl.Hp.Ma.288b; also applied κατ᾽ ἀντίφρασιν to a swine, Gal.18(2).611; γλυκὺ πνεῖον, of mustard, Matro Conv.90.
II. as Subst., ὁ γ. (sc. οἶνος) grape-syrup, Alex. 59, 172.14, Arist.Pr.875b2, Herod.6.77, POxy.1088.51; also “τὸ γ.” Nic.Al.386, POxy.234ii6 (ii/iii A. D.).
b. of the eye of Polyphemus, Theoc.6.22.
III. Comp. and Sup. “γλυκίων” Od.9.34; “γλύκιστος” B.3.47, Ael.NA12.46, etc.; also “γλυκύτερος, -τατος” Pi.O.1.109, 19, etc.; “γλύσσων” Xenoph.38.2.
