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σεμνό-της , ητος, ἡ,
A.solemnity, dignity, “σεμνότητ᾽ ἔχει σκότος” E.Ba.486, cf. X.Cyr.8.3.1, Isoc.12.242, Pl.Mx.235b; “ἡ ς. τοῦ ῥήματος” D.Prooem.45; [τῆς λέξεως] Arist.Rh.1408b35; ἡ τοῦ τόπου ς. Milet.1(9).368; also of persons, seriousness, dignity, “ἐπὶ τῆς ς. αὐθάδεις ὑπολαμβάνεσθαι” D.61.14, cf. Arist.Rh.1391a28, Ep.Tit.2.7, 1 Ep.Ti.2.2: in pl., “ς. οὐκ ἀληθιναὶ ἀλλὰ πεπλασμέναι” Isoc.6.98.
II. of a girl, reserve or shyness, E.IA 1344.
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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