εὐσεβ-έω,
live or act piously or reverently, absolutely, [[ 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 145, “Berl.Sitzb.” 1927.8 (_Locrian dialect_, 5th c.BC), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1350, etc.] Refs 6th c.BC+]; εἴς τινα towards one, [[ [prev. author] “Ant.” 731; περί τινα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 1148; περὶ θεούς 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 193a; πρὸς τὸν θεόν 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Μονόστιχοι - Fragmenta Comicorum Graecorum” 567; πρὸς θεούς “Anthologia Graeca” 10.107 (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus); εὐ. τὰ πρὸς θεούς 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1441; τὰ περὶ τοὺς θεούς 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 3.2 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of outward acts of service, θύουσα καὶ εὐσεβοῦσα τοῖς θεοῖς [[ “PRyl.” 112 (a). 4 (3rd c.AD)] Refs 3rd c.AD+]; εὐ. θεούς to reverence them, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 338 (nisi to be read εὖ σέβειν); εὐσεβήσασαν τὴν θεόν “BCH” 44.77 (from Lagina):] Refs 4th c.BC+] —passive, εὐσεβεῖσθαι to be reverenced, [[ 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 3.3.11, 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 2.201 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of a duty, to be reverently discharged, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Axiochus” 364c. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]