Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon

A.unmixed with wine, ν. μειλίγματα offerings of water, milk, and honey to the Eumenides, A.Eu.107; to the Muses and Nymphs, “κρατὴρ νηφάλιος” Plu.2.156d; νηφάλιαι εὐχωλαί, θυσίαι, A.R.4.712, Polem.Hist.42; “ν. βωμοί” IG2.1651 (iv B.C.); “νηφάλια καὶ μελίσπονδα θύειν” Plu.2.464c, 672b; τῷ Διονύσῳ πολλάκις ν. θύομεν ib. 132e (prov. of a frugal meal); “ν. σπείσω Κύπριδι” AP5.225 (Paul. Sil.); ν. ξύλα wood other than vine twigs, burned in sacrifices, esp. the twigs of the herb θύμος, Philoch.31, Crates Hist.5; ν. πόπανον with no wine in it, IG3.77.18.

II. sober, “ν. μέθη” Ph.1.16, 2.447; “βαθὺ ἡ σιγὴ καὶ νηφάλιον, ἡ δὲ μέθη λάλον” Plu.2.504a; of persons, 1 Ep.Ti.3.2,11, Ep.Tit.2.2, J.AJ13.12.2. Adv. “-ίως, ν. ἔχειν” Poll.6.26.