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εὐφημίας (euphemias)

εὐφημίας is an Ancient Greek form of εὐφημία, meaning “auspicious speech; silence; good reputation”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun or genitive singular feminine noun.

Found 46 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 8.1.33: … ὅλα. φιλίαν τʼ εἶναι ἐναρμόνιον ἰσότητα. τιμὰς θεοῖς δεῖν νομίζειν καὶ ἥρωσι μὴ τὰς ἴσας, ἀλλὰ θεοῖς ἀεὶ μετʼ εὐφημίας λευχειμονοῦντας καὶ ἁγνεύοντας, ἥρωσι δʼ ἀπὸ μέσου ἡμέρας. τὴν δʼ ἁγνείαν εἶναι διὰ καθαρμῶν καὶ λουτρῶν καὶ …

Greek Anthology, Greek Anthology, Ἀνθολογία, Volume II 8.129.5: κλαύσατε. ὦ χαρίεσσ’ Εὐφημιάς· ὥς σε θανών περ

All forms of εὐφημία (declension 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.