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σοβ-α^ρός , ά, όν, (σοβέω)
A.rushing, violent, ἄνεμος . . φέρεται ς. Ar.Nu. 406; “ς. κατέχει αὔρα” Id.Pax944; “ὡς ς. εἰσελήλυθεν ὁ συκοφάντης” Id.Pl.872; “ὁ ς. ἡμῖν ἀρτίως καὶ πολεμικός . . κλάει κατακλινείς” Men.Pk.52; λίαν ἦν θρασὺς καὶ ς. [ὁ Ἔρως] Aristopho 11.5. Adv. -ρῶς, opp. ἥσυχος, ἠρέμα, Ar.Pax83.
II. swaggering, pompous, haughty: of a horse,= γαῦρος, X.Eq.10.17; “ς. καὶ ὀλίγωρος” D.59.37; ς. αὐχένες, ὀφρύες, AP 5.27,91 (both Rufin.); “σοβαρὸς τῇ χαίτῃ” Luc.Zeux.5; “σοβαρὸν γελᾶν” Pl.Epigr.4.1, Theoc.20.15. Adv. “-ρῶς” Plb.3.72.13, Plu.Alc.4.
b. proud, λόγοι ἀδεεῖς καὶ ς. Id.Pyrrh.18; fearless, dub. in Epicur. Sent.Vat.45.
2. of things, ς. μέλος a rousing tune, Ar.Ach.674; imposing, [στολή] Plu.Alex.45; of a triumphal procession, Id.Sull. 34; σοβαρωτέρα τιμῇ at a more impressive price, Ael.NA16.32; “ς. ἀναθήματα” Id.Fr.67. Adv. -ρῶς ib.70.
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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