εὐφήμει (euphemei)

εὐφήμει is an Ancient Greek form of εὐφημέω, meaning “keep holy silence; speak well”. It is the 2nd person singular present active imperative or 3rd person singular present active indicative.

Found 28 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.3.7: … ὴν τῶν φυσικῶν θεωρίαν ἦν οὐ φροντίζων τῶν πολιτικῶν. ὅτε καὶ πρὸς τὸν εἰπόντα, οὐδέν σοι μέλει τῆς πατρίδος; εὐφήμει, ἔφη, ἐμοὶ γὰρ καὶ σφόδρα μέλει τῆς πατρίδος, δείξας τὸν οὐρανόν. Λέγεται δὲ κατὰ τὴν Ξέρξου διάβασιν εἴκοσιν …

Lucian of Samosata, Scytha 6: … λαβὼν ἄγε παρ' αὐτόν. ἀτὰρ ἐκεῖνο δέδια, μὴ δυσπρόσοδος καὶ ἐν παρέργῳ θῆταί σου τὴν ἔντευξιν τὴν ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν. Εὐφήμει, ἦ δ’ ὅς, ἐκείνῳ τὰ μέγιστα χαριεῖσθαί μοι δοκῶ ἀφορμὴν παρασχὼν τῆς ἐς ξένον ἄνδρα εὐποιίας. ἕπου μόνον· εἴσ …

Callimachus, Hymn to Apollo 18: εὐφημεῖ καὶ πόντος, ὅτε κλείουσιν ἀοιδοί

All forms of εὐφημέω (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.