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σώφρων , Ep. and poet. σα^όφρων (as in Hom., v. infr., Pi.Pae.9.46), ονος , ὁ, ἡ: neut. σῶφρον:—prop.
A.of sound mind (from σῶς, φρήν, cf. Pl.Cra.411e, Arist.EN1140b11): hence, discreet, prudent, “οὐκ ἄν με σαόφρονα μυθήσαιο ἔμμεναι” Il.21.462, cf. Od.4.158; opp. ἄφρων, Thgn.431, 454, 497; opp. νήπιος, Id.483; opp. ἀνόητος, Hdt.1.4; “σώφρονες περὶ θεούς” X.Mem.4.3.2; “σωφρονέστατος ἐν τῇ τέχνῃ” Hp.Prorrh. 2.2.
2. of things, “τοῖσι λόγοις σῶφρον ἔπεστιν ἄνθος” Ar.Nu.1025 (lyr.); ς. οἶκτος reasonable compassion, Th.3.59; “-έστατον κήρυγμα” Aeschin.3.4; “σώφρον᾽ εἶπας” E.IA1024; “ἄλλο τι -έστερον γνώσεσθε” Th.5.111; σῶφρόν ἐστι c. inf., Id.1.42.
II. in Att., esp. having control over the sensual desires, temperate, self-controlled, chaste (“σώφρων ὁ μετρίας ἐπιθυμίας ἔχων” Pl.Def.415d, cf. “σωφροσύνη” 1), “μοι δὸς -εστέραν πολὺ μητρὸς γενέσθαι” A.Ch.140, cf. S.Aj.132; γυνὴ ς. And. 4.14, cf. S.Fr.682; “ς. καὶ ἐγκρατὴς ἑαυτοῦ” Pl.Grg.491d, cf. 1 Ep.Ti. 3.2, etc.
2. of things, “ς. γνώμη” A.Ag.1664 (troch.); “εὐχαί” Id.Supp.710; ς. ὑμέναιοι, λέχη, E.Or.558, El.1099; τράπεζα, δίαιτα, Id.Fr.893 (lyr.), Pl.Ep.336c; ἀριστοκρατία moderate, Th.3.82; χάρις ib. 58; “βίος” Pl.Lg.733e; “φρονεῖν σώφρονα” S.Fr.64.
3. τὸ σῶφρον, = σωφροσύνη, Id.Fr.786, E.Hipp.431, Th.1.37, 3.82; σοῦ τὸ ς. E.Andr.365, cf. 346, etc.; “ἐπὶ τὸ -έστερον λαμβάνειν τι” Hdt.3.71; “τὸ -έστατον” Th.3.62; “τὰ σώφρονα λάγδην πατεῖται” S.Fr.683.
III. Adv. “-όνως” A.Th. 645, Eu.44, Hdt.4.77; “ς. τραφῆναι” Ar.Eq.334 (lyr.); “ς. τε καὶ μετρίως” Pl.R.399b; δικαίως πράττοντες καὶ ς. Id.Alc.1.134d; ς. ἐφέπεσθαι cautiously, X.Ages.2.3: Comp., -έστερον πολιτεύειν adopt a more moderate constitution, Th.8.53, cf. 1.84, X.Eq.Mag.1.14, etc.; but “-εστέρως” E.IA379 (troch.): Sup. “-έστατα” Isoc.7.13, Pl.Lg.728e.
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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