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

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A.recall a person to his senses, chasten, E.Fr.209, Pl.Grg.478d, X.Cyr. 8.6.16, etc.; ἡ τοιαύτη ἧττα σωφρονίζειν ἱκανή ib.3.1.20; τοὺς πονηροτάτους αἱ συμφοραὶ ς. D.25.93: folld. by inf., ἵνα σωφρονίζωσιν τὰς νέας φιλάνδρους εἶναι κτλ. Ep.Tit.2.4:—Pass., to be chastened, learn self-control, Th.6.78, X.Cyr.3.1.19, etc.

2. of passions, things, etc., “ς. τὸ θυμούμενον τῆς γνώμης” Antipho 2.3.3; οὐ τὴν λαγνείαν λιμῷ ς. X.Mem.2.1.16; ἀμπνοὰς ς. to pant less violently, E.HF869 (troch.); τῶν κατὰ τὴν πόλιν τι ἐς εὐτέλειαν ς. to reduce the expenses of government at home, Th.8.1.

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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