εὔφημ-ος,
Doric dialect εὔφᾱμος, ον, (φήμη) uttering sounds of good omen, ἀετός [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 618b31: usually in derived senses, ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__I abstaining from inauspicious words, i.e. religiously silent, εὔφημον.. κοίμησον στόμα [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1247; γλῶσσαν εὔ. φέρειν [prev. author] “Ch.” 581; so perhaps εὔ. γόοι [prev. author] “fragment” 40 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; εὐφάμου στόμα φροντίδος ἱέντες moving the lips of reverent thought, i.e. keeping a holy silence, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 132 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; so ὑπ᾽ εὐφήμου βοῆς, i.e. in silence, [[ [prev. author] “El.” 630 ] Refs]; εὔφημα φώνει, ={εὐφήμει}, [[ [prev. author] “Aj.” 362, 591, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 687; εὔφημος ἴσθι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 478; εὔ. πᾶς ἔστω λαός 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 39 (_anapaest meter_). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I.2 mild, softening [[compare (εὐφημία 11.1, εὐφημισμός), ἐν-οτάτοις ὀνόμασι.. κατονομάζειν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus Alcaeus2.140c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πρὸς τὸ -ότατον, Latin in meliorem partem, [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Prom.Es” 3 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]. adverb comparative -ότερον [[ 12th c.AD: Eustathius Episcopus Thessalonicensis 1398.49. ] Refs]
__I.3 fair-spoken, εἰς τὸ δαιμόνιον [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “de Pietate - Herkulanische Studien” 18. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__II in positive sense, fair-sounding, auspicious, μῦθοι [[ 6th c.BC: Xenophanes Poeta Philosophus 1.14; ἦμαρ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 636; ἔπος [prev. author] “Supp.” 512; εὔφημοι κέλαδοι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 1072 (Lyric poetry); εὔφαμον δ᾽ ἐπὶ βωμοῖς μοῦσαν θείατ᾽ ἀοιδοί 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 694 (Lyric poetry); Μούσης ἀνοίγειν.. εὔφημον στόμα 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1719 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; εὔ. πόνοι pious, holy, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 134 (Lyric poetry); δόμοι [prev. author] “Andr.” 1144 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ᾠδῆς γένος, ἐρωτήματα, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 800e, “Hp.Ma.” 293a, cf. NT.Phil.4.8; πλοῦς 4th c.AD: Iamblichus Philosophus “de vita Pythagorica” 3.16 (_superlative_)] NT+5th c.BC+]. adverb -μως with or in words of good omen, [[ Hymnus ad Apollinem 171 (uncertain reading), 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 287, “IG” 12.108.55, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 265c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: comparative -ότερον [[ 5th c.AD: Aristaenetus Rhetor 2.9. ] Refs 5th c.AD+]