A.“ἤρεσκον” Th.5.37, etc.: fut. “ἀρέσω” D.39.33, Ep. ἀρέσσω （συν-) A.R.3.901: aor. “ἤρεσα” Hdt.8.19, Com.Adesp.19.4D., etc., Ep. “ἄρεσσα” A.R.3.301, inf. “ἀρέσαι” Il., X.: pf. “ἀρήρεκα” Corn.ND24, S.E.M.1.238:—Med., fut. “ἀρέσομαι” A.Supp.655 (lyr.), Ep. “ἀρέσσομαι” Il.4.362: aor. ἠρεσάμην, Ep. “ἀρ-” Hes.Sc.255, Ep. part. “ἀρεσσάμενος” Il. 9.112, Thgn.762: aor. Pass. in med. sense, S.Ant.500:—Pass., aor. “ἠρέσθην” Paus.2.13.8, J.AJ12.9.6.
I. of pers. only, make good, make amends, “ἂψ ἐθέλω ἀρέσαι” Il.9.120:—Med., “ταῦτα δ᾽ ὄπισθεν ἀρεσσόμεθ᾽ εἴ τι κακὸν νῦν εἴρηται” 4.362, cf. Od.22.55, Q.S.4.377, 9.510; σπονδὰς θεοῖς ἀρέσασθαι make full drink-offerings to the gods, Thgn. l.c.
2. in Hom. also freq. in Med., c. acc. pers. et dat. modi, appease, conciliate, “αὐτὸν ἀρεσσάσθω ἐπέεσσι καὶ δώρῳ” Od.8.396; τὸν ξεῖνον ἀρέσσομαι ὡς σὺ κελεύεις ib.402; “ὥς κέν μιν ἀρεσσάμενοι πεπίθωμεν δώροισι” Il.9.112, cf. 19.179; “καθαροῖσι βωμοῖς θεοὺς ἀρέσονται” A.Supp.655; “καί σε φίλως θυέεσσιν ἀρέσσατο” Maiist.11: c. gen. rei, ἀρέσαντο φρένας αἵματος they sated their heart with blood, Hes.Sc. 255.
3. after Hom., c. dat. pers., please, satisfy, οὔτε γάρ μοι Πολυκράτης ἤρεσκε δεσπόζων . . Hdt.3.142; “δεῖ μ᾽ ἀρέσκειν τοῖς κάτω” S.Ant.75, cf. 89; ἀεὶ δ᾽ ἀρέσκειν τοῖς κρατοῦσιν to be obsequious to them, E.Fr.93, cf. X.Mem.2.2.11; ἀ. τρόποις τινός conform to his ways, D.61.19; “τὸ κολακεύειν νῦν ἀρέσκειν ὄνομ᾽ ἔχει” Anaxandr.42; “πᾶσιν ἀρέσκω” 1 Ep.Cor.10.33; “ἑαυτοῖς” Ep.Rom.15.1:—Med., μάλιστα ἠρέσκοντό <οἱ> οἱ ἀπ᾽ Ἀθηνέων pleased him most, Hdt.6.128.
II. of things, c. dat. pers., please, “εἴ τοι ἀρέσκει τὰ ἐγὼ λέγω” Hdt.1.89; “κάρτα οἱ ἤρεσε ἡ ὑποθήκη” Id.8.58, cf. 3.40, 6.22; “τῷ τοῦτ᾽ ἤρεσεν;” S. El.409; “σοὶ ταῦτ᾽ ἀρέσκει” Id.Ant.211, etc.; τοῖς . . πρέσβεσιν ἤρεσκεν [the proposal] pleased them, Th.5.37, cf. Pl.Tht.157d, al.: also in aor. Pass., μηδ᾽ ἀρεσθείη ποτέ (sc. μηδὲν τῶν σῶν λόγων) S.Ant. 500.
III. c. acc. pers., “οὐ γάρ μ᾽ ἀρέσκει γλῶσσά σου τεθηγμένη” Id.Aj.584; “οὐδέ σ᾽ ἀρέσκει τὸ παρόν” E.Hipp.185 (lyr.), cf.Or.210; “τουτὶ . . μ᾽ οὐκ ἀ.” Ar.Pl.353, cf. Ach.189, Ra.103, Th.1.128; “πότερός σε ὁ τρόπος ἀ.;” Pl.Cra.433e, cf. 391c, R.557b, Tht.172d: hence in Pass., to be pleased, satisfied, “οὐκ ἠρέσκετο λειπομένου Μαρδονίου ὑπὸ βασιλέος” Hdt. 9.66; τῇ κρίσι with the decision, Id.3.34; “διαίτῃ Σκυθικῇ” Id.4.78; “τοῖς λόγοις” Th.1.129, cf. 2.68; “τῇ σῇ συνουσίᾳ” Pl.Thg.127b; later in aor., “ἠρέσθη τῇ γνώμῃ” J. l.c., al.; “ἀρεσθεὶς τῷ πώματι” Paus. l.c.
IV. ἀρέσκει is used impers. to express the opinion or resolution of a public body, “ταῦτα ἤρεσέ σφι ποιέειν” Hdt.8.19; “ἢν δ᾽ ἀρέσκῃ ταῦτ᾽ Ἀθηναίοις” Ar.Eq.1311; ἀρέσκει . . εἶναι Δελφῶν it is resolved that . . , SIG827D10; also of prevailing opinions, ἀρέσκει περὶ τρίψεως παραγγέλλοντας . . writers on massage lay down the rule that . . , Gal. 6.96; τὰ ἀρέσκοντα the dogmas of philosophers, Plu.2.448a, 1006d, etc.:—Med., “ἐξεῖναι παρ᾽ ὁποτέρους ἂν ἀρέσκηται ἐλθεῖν” Th.1.35.
V. part. ἀρέσκων, ουσα, ον, grateful, acceptable, “ὅσοις τάδ᾽ ἔστ᾽ ἀρέσκονθ᾽” S.OT274; “μηδὲν ἀρέσκον λέγειν” Th.3.34; “ἀρέσκοντας ὑμῖν λόγους” Isoc.8.5.
2. of persons, acceptable, “τὸν ἀρέσκοντα αὑτῷ προσλαμβάνειν” Pl.Lg.951e; “τῇ πόλει ἀ.” Lys.19.13. (Cognate with ἀραρίσκω.）
