μεγᾰλο-φῠής, ές,
(φυή) of noble nature, ἄνδρα -έστερον ἢ κατ᾽ ἄνθρωπον [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 12.23.5, compare 5th-6th c.AD: Damascius Philosophus “de Principiis” 54 (_comparative_)] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; οἱ μ. τῶν ἀνθρώπων [[ 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “Πυρρώνειοι ὑποτυπώσεις” 1.12, compare 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 3.23.15; μ. ἤθη καὶ πάθη 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Veterum Censura” 2.11 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]; ἡ μ. αὐθεντία σου, as a title, [[ 6th c.AD: Justinianus Imperator “Novellae” 126.3 “Ep.” ] Refs 6th c.AD+] adverb - φῠῶς [[ 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 2.17.19. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__2 endowed with genius, [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.28 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus, 3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 1.38 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ μ. lofty genius, [[ 3rd c.AD: Longinus Rhetor 9.1; τὸ-έστατον [prev. author] 34.4. ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]
__3 large, ἀμφίβια (in the Nile), [[ 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 15.1.22. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__II adverb -φυῶς in bad sense, with exaggeration, [[ 2nd c.AD: Cleomedes Astronomus 2.1. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]