εὐγένεια,
poetry εὐγενία (which see), ἡ, nobility of birth, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 442, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 53, +others, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 3.42, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1390b16, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐμῶν εὐ. παίδων, ={ἐμοὶ εὐγενεῖς παῖδες}, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 583 (Lyric poetry): _plural_, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthydemus” 279b, “R.” 618d ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; pure breeding, of animals, [[ 1st c.AD: Onosander (Onasander) Tacticus 1.21. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__2 ={γενναιότης}, nobleness of mind, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Demosthenes” 24, “Ant.” 86, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “Varia Historia” 12.1, 1st-2nd c.AD: Dio Chrysostomus Sophista 52.16, etc. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__3 bodily excellence, ἡ ἐν τοῖς σώμασιν εὐ. [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Romulus” 6, compare 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus “de Usu Partium” 10.6 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; of materials, χαλκοῦ [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 3.54 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]: generally, excellence, [[ 4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Orationes” 49.27. ] Refs 4th c.AD+]
__4 of style, elevation, nobility, [[ 3rd c.AD: Longinus Rhetor 34.2; ποιημάτων 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 18. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__5 as a title, ἡ εὐ. σου [[ “PGen.” 1.50.14 (4th c.AD). ] Refs 4th c.AD+]