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σα^φής , ές, gen. έος, contr. οῦς,
A.clear, plain, distinct, of things heard, perceived, or known, “σαφὲς δ᾽ οὐκ οἶδα” h.Merc.208 (Hom. only has Adv. σάφα, q.v.); “μῦθος” A.Pr.641; “λόγος” Id.Ag.1047; “χρησμός” Ar. Lys.777; “κτύπος” S.OC1501; “φθέγματ᾽ ὀρνίθων” Id.El.18; γράμματα distinctly legible, OGI665.12 (Egypt, i A.D.); τὰς κλεῖς ἔχουσι σαφεῖς prominent collar-bones, Gal.17(2).97: generally, clear or manifest to the mind, “ς. ἀρετά” Pi.I.1.22; “τέκμαρ” Id.N.11.43; “σημεῖα” S.El.23; “πρόνοια” Id.OT978; “τεκμήριον” E.Hipp.926; “πίστις” Th.1.35 (Sup.); “βάσανος” Pl.Lg.957d; ς. τοῦτο παντὶ ὅτι . . it is manifest that . ., Id.Phdr.239e; “ς. τι . . λέξον” A.Pers.705; “σαφῆ δ᾽ ἀκούεις” Id.Supp.948; “σαφῆ τἀκεῖθεν ἐκ στρατοῦ φέρων” Id.Th.40; σαφὲς καταστῆσαί τι to make it quite clear, Th.1.140, cf. 3.40; τῶν γενομένων τὸ ς. the clear truth, Id.1.22; “σοφόν τοι τὸ ς., οὐ τὸ μὴ ς.” E.Or.397.
2. of persons (mostly Trag.), “ς. ἄγγελος” A.Th.82 (lyr.); “φίλος” E.Or.1155; “μηνυταί” Pl.Lg.918a; esp. of seers, oracles, prophets, sure, unerring, S. OT390, 1011, OC623; accurate, “γραμματεύς” A.Fr.358.
II. Adv. σα^φῶς, Ion., etc. -έως, h.Cer.149, and freq. in Hdt., esp. (like σάφα) with Verbs of saying, hearing, knowing, clearly, plainly, distinctly, “σαφέως φράσαι” 2.31; δηλοῦν ib.44; “ἐπίστασθαι” 8.88; “δεῖξαι” A.Pr. 914; “εἰδέναι” S.El.660; “σαφέως μαρτυρήσω” Pi.O.6.20; φράσσατέ μοι ς. Id.P.4.117; ἤκουον ς. S.Ph.595, etc.; εὖ γὰρ οἶδ᾽ ἐγὼ ς. Ar.Pax 1302.
2. clearly, manifestly, “ς. μ᾽ ἐς οἶκον σὸς λόγος στέλλει πάλιν” A.Pr.389; πρὸς γυναικὸς ἦν ς. Id.Ag.1636; κατοικεῖ τούσδε τοὺς τόπους ς. S.Ph.40; ς. φρόνει be well assured of it, ib.810; “ς. ᾔρετο ἡ δύναμις” Th.1.118; ς. ἀπολωλέναι to be undoubtedly dead, X.Cyr.3.2.15; πήγνυμαι ς. Antiph.166.7; ὡς κεχρημένη ς. σιδήρῳ καὶ φοροῦσα τοὔνομα (sc. Σιδηρώ) S.Fr.658; “τῶν ς. ἀποχειροβιώτων” X.Cyr.8.3.37, cf. Smp.4.32.
3. in affirmative answers, yes obviously, ib.60.
4. Comp. “-έστερον” A.Ch.735,767, Pl.Prt.352a, al.; “-εστέρως” Arist. Metaph.986b30 (as v.l.): Sup. “-έστατα” A.Ag.38, S.OT286, Ar.Pl. 46, Pl.Phd.58d.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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