σοφός, ή, όν,
skilled in any handicraft or art, clever, ἁρματηλάτας σ. [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 5.115, compare “N.” 7.17; κυβερνήτης 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 770; μάντις [prev. author] “Th.” 382; οἰωνοθέτας 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 484 (Lyric poetry) ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of a sculptor, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 372 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; even of hedgers and ditchers, [[ Margites “fragment” 2] Refs]; but in this sense mostly of poets and musicians, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.9, “P.” 1.42, 3.113 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν κιθάρᾳ σ. [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 1238 (Lyric poetry), compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 896 (Lyric poetry), etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὴν τέχνην -ώτερος[[ [prev. work] 766; περί τι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 696c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; γλώσσῃ σ. [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 88.10; σοφὸς ὁ πολλὰ εἰδὼς φυᾷ, μαθόντες δὲ λάβροι 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 2.86. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 clever in practical matters, wise, prudent, ὁ χρήσιμ᾽ εἰδώς, οὐχ ὁ πόλλ᾽ εἰδώς, σ. [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 390 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; especially statesmanlike, in which sense the seven Sages were so called, [[ 4th c.BC: Dicaearchus Geographus cited in 3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 1.40 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]: hence, shrewd, worldly-wise, [[ 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 120, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 2.12, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.85; σ. ἄνδρες εἰσὶ Θεσσαλοὶ [prev. author] 7.130; σ. παλαιστὴς.., ἀλλὰ χαἱ χαἱ σοφαὶ γνῶμαι.. ἐμποδίζονται 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 431, compare 440, “Aj.” 1374 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; πολλὰ σ. [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1295 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἃ δεῖ σ. [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 655f; τῶν λεγομένων πονηρῶν μέν, σοφῶν δέ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 519a: also σοφαὶ πραπίδες 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 11(10).10; φύσις 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1282 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: even of animals, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 3.7 (_comparative_), 6.13 (_superlative_)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σ. πειθώ [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 9.39 codices (σοφοῖς Bgk.)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; εὐβουλία [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 1038: τὸ σ] Refs 4th c.BC+]. my little trick, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 502d ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; your clever notion, [[ [prev. author] “Euthd.” 293d ] Refs]; τἀπ᾽ ἐμοῦ σοφά, δάκρυα my tears, all the resources that I have, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 1214 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; εἰ δίκαια, τῶν σοφῶν κρείσσω τάδε better than all craft, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1246 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σοφόν [ἐστι] with infinitive, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 228. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]