εὐγεν-ής, ές,
in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+] εὐηγενής (which see), and in [[ “hymnus ad Venerem” 94 ] Refs] ἠϋγενής: (γένος):— well-born, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 704 (troch.), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 728, etc.; εὐ. δόμος 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 1540 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ μὲν ἐστίχθαι εὐγενὲς κέκριται being tattooed is esteemed a mark of nobility, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.6. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 in Trag. etc. with the connotation noble-minded, generous (more properly γενναῖος,[[compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1390b22), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 38, “Ph.” 874, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; διαφέρει φύσις γενναίου σκύλακος.. νεανίσκου εὐ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 375a. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 of animals, high-bred, ἵππος [[ 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 184, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 25; λέων 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1259; ὄρνιθες 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.58.7 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; of plants, of a good sort, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “Varia Historia” 2.14; ῥόαι 4th c.BC: Eriphus Comicus 2.11; πυροί 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 11.120; βλαστοί “Geoponica” 5.37.2 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]: so in comparative, [[ 4th c.BC: Eubulus Comicus 44; φλέβες καὶ ἶνες 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 5.1.7 (assuming variant, compare εὐτενής); χαλκός 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 864 (variant)] Refs 5th c.BC+]: metaphorically, of a wife, ὥσπερ εὐγενῆ χώραν ἐντεκνώσασθαι παρασχεῖν [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Cat.Mi.” 25. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]