Cf. Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes; Euripides, Phoenissae 1118.
ὁ μάντις Ἀμφιάραος οὐ σημεῖ᾽ ἔχων
ὑβρισμέν᾽, ἀλλὰ σωφρόνως ἄσημ᾽ ὅπλα.
For this idiom cf. Milton, Paradise Lost 4. 324.
“Adam the goodliest of men since born
His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.”
Iliad 7. 195
τόφρ᾽ ὑμεῖς εὔχεσθε Διί Κρονίωνι, ἄνακτι σιγῇ ἐφ᾽ ὑμείων, ἵνα μὴ Τρῶές γε πύθωνται.