Strong G5345φήμη

φήμη, ἡ,
Aeolic dialect and Doric dialect φάμα, [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica “Papyrus fragments” in E. Diehl, 20 a. 12, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 7.10)]; pseudo-Doric dialect φήμα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 5.194, +others, 3rd c.BC: Isyllus Lyricus 80)]: (φημί).
I utterance prompted by the gods, significant or prophetic saying, χαῖρε δὲ φήμῃ Ὀδυσσῆος φίλος υἱός [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.35)], ubi see [Refs 8th c.BC+ (Scholia; in the prayer of Odysseus to Zeus, φήμην τίς μοι φάσθω 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.100; followed by φήμην δ᾽ ἐξ οἴκοιο γυνὴ προέηκεν ἀλετρίς [prev. work] 105)]; φ. and κλεηδών are interchanged, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.72, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1109)] {φημί}; φ. about a τέρας, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.153; εἴτε του θεῶν φήμην ἀκούσας εἴτ᾽ ἀπ᾽ ἀνδρὸς οἶσθα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 43, compare 86, 475 (Lyric poetry))]; τοῦ ὀνείρου ἡ φ. the message of the dream, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.43; φ. μαντικαί 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 723; φ. θεσφάτων [prev. author] “Tr.” 1150; μάντεων φῆμαι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 1056. compare “Ion” 180 (Lyric poetry); φήμη τις οἴκων ἐν μυχοῖς ἱδρυμένη [prev. author] “Hel.” 820; φήμας τε καὶ μαντείας 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 111b, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 9.21; φήμας καὶ ἐνύπνια καὶ οἰωνούς 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 4.48, compare “Cyr.” 8.7.3, etc.; φήμης ἕνεκα)]ominis causa, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 878a, compare 908a)]; τῇ πόλει (i.e. Aquileia) ἀετὸς οἴκιζομένῃ τὴν αὑτοῦ φ. χαρίζεται [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Orationes” 2.72a; hence, comically, φήμη γ᾽ ὑμῖν ὄρνις ἐστί 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 720)]; φ. ἀγαθὴν λέξομεν ={εὐφημίαν παρέξομεν}, [Refs ([prev. author] “V.” 865 (_anapaest meter_).)]
I.2 report, rumour, usually of uncertain and mysterious origin, φήμη οὔ τις πάμπαν ἀπόλλυται, ἥν τινα πολλοὶ λαοὶ φημίξωσι· θεός νύ τίς ἐστι καὶ αὐτή [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 763, compare 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.128 (citing φήμη δ᾽ ἐς στρατὸν ἦλθε as from 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad”))]; Φήμης βωμός Scholia (at [prev. work]), [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 1.17.1)]; common report, opposed to συκοφαντία, [Refs 7th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 2.145; φάμα δ᾽ ἦλθε κατὰ πτόλιν 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica [same place]; ἄμβροτε Φ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 158 (Lyric poetry); φ. ἐσέπτατο ἐς τὸ στρατόπεδον 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.100; φ. δημόθρους 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 938; τίν᾽ ἔχων φ. ἀγαθὴν ἥκει; 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 1320 (_anapaest meter_); φ. ὑπορρεῖ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 672b; φήμην κατασκεδάσαι [prev. author] “Ap.” 18c.)]
I.3 report of a man's character, repute, δεινὴν δὲ βροτῶν ὑπαλεύεο φήμην· φ. γάρ τε κακὴ πέλεται, κούφη μὲν ἀεῖραι—ῥεῖα μάλ᾽, ἀργαλέη δὲ φέρειν, χαλεπὴ δ᾽ ἀποθέσθαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 760; ὑποδεέστερα τῆς φ. 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.11; περὶ τὸν τῶν ἀνθρώπων βίον.. καὶ πράξεις ἀψευδής τις πλανᾶται φ. 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.127; τοιαύτην φ. σαυτῇ περιφυομένην 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 5.78: _plural_, ἐπιφέρειν γυναικείους ἑαυτοῖς φήμας 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 935a; ἐπώνυμος ἐν φήμαις βροτῶν 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 105)]:—especially of good report, fame, περιχαρὴς τῇ φ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.31; κατὰ τὴν εὐλογίαν καὶ τοὺς ἐπαίνους καὶ τὴν φ. 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 5.134, compare 4.186; ὁ δ᾽ ὄλβιος ὃν φᾶμαι κατέχοντ᾽ ἀγαθαί 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 7.10: but also φ. πονηραί 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 1045)]; αἰσχρὰ φ., opposed to καλὴ δόξα, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 1.43; ψευδῆ φ. ὑμνεῖν κατὰ θεῶν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 822c, compare “R.” 463d.)]
I.4 φᾶμαι songs of praise, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 2.16; φάμα φιλοφόρμιγξ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 697 (Lyric poetry), compare “Th.” 866 (_anapaest meter_).)]
II any voice or words, speech, saying, λόγων φ. poetry periphrastic for λόγοι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 846 (Lyric poetry))]; especially common report, tradition, legend, ἀλλ᾽ ἔστι φήμη.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 760; πολιαὶ φῆμαι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 701 (Lyric poetry), compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 16c, “Lg.” 713c; αἱ ἀρχαῖαι φ. 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 12.3.2)]; μνήμην παρὰ τῆς φήμης λαβών [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 2.3.)]
II.b common report or parlance, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Chrysippus Stoicus 2.242)]; ὅσους ἡ κοινὴ φ. παραδέδωκεν [θεούς] [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “de Pietate - Herkulanische Studien” 17.)]
II.2 message, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 741, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1155, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 158 (Lyric poetry).)]