A.“σεβέοις” IG5(1).1390.5 (Andania)), (σέβω) pious, religious, opp. δυσσεβής (q.v.), Thgn.1141, Hdt.2.141, Pi.O.3.41; “τρόπος” Ar.Ra. 457 (lyr.): not common in early Prose, Gorg.Fr.6D., Pl.Phlb.39e; dutiful, esp. discharging sacred duties, πρός or ἔς τινα, A.Supp.340, E. El.253; ἀνὴρ εὐ. (v.l. εὐλαβής）“ κατὰ τὸν νόμον” Act.Ap.22.12; εὐ. καὶ φοβούμενος τὸν θεόν ib.10.2: c.acc. modi, -εστέρα χεῖρα more righteous in act, A.Ch.141; “εὐσεβεῖς κἀξ εὐσεβῶν βλαστόντας” S.El.589; ὁ τῶν εὐσεβῶν χῶρος, of a place in the nether world, Pl.Ax.371c; ἐν εὐσεβέων (sc. χώρῳ) Call.Epigr.12, cf. Sammelb.2048 (ii b.c.).
2. as epith. of Emperors, = Pius, IGRom.3.91 (iii A.D.), al., PGrenf.1.49.28 (iii A.D.), PHamb.1.13.2 (iii A.D.), etc.; esp. of Antoninus Pius, IGRom.3.1293, al.
b. of taxes, etc., due to the Emperor, BGU917.15 (iv A.D.), etc.
3. metaph., of a piece of land, dutiful, i.e. productive, “ἀγρὸν -έστερον γεωργεῖν οὐδ᾽ ἕνα οἶμαι” Men.Georg.35.
II. ofacts, things, etc., holy, sacred, “ταῦτά μοὐστὶν εὐσεβῆ θεῶν πάρα” A.Ch.122; “εὐ. χρηστηριον” E.El.1272; ἐν εὐσεβεῖ [ἐστι] c.inf., Id.Hel.1277; τὸ εὐ., = εὐσέβεια, S.OC1125, E.Tr.43; τὸ ὑμέτερον εὐ. Antipho 5.96; τοὐμὸν εὐ. E.Hipp.656; τιτῶν ἐν ἀνθρώποις εὐσεβῶν παραβαίνειν Philipp. ap. D.18.157.
