σωφροσύνη [ῠ],
Doric dialect σωφροσ-ύνα, Epic dialect and poetry σᾰοφροσύνη (as in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+] and in later poetry, [[ “IG” 22.3632.11, 3753)] Refs], ἡ, soundness of mind, prudence, discretion, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 23.13; in _plural_, [prev. work] 30 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; the common form first in [[ 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 379, 701, 1138, 5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 101; αἰδὼς σωφροσύνης πλεῖστον μετέχει 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.84; σ. λαβεῖν [prev. author] 8.64 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; sanity, opposed to μανία, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.1.16, cf. NT.Act.26.25. ] NT+5th c.BC+]
__2 moderation in sensual desires, selfcontrol, temperance, [[ 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 210, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 962 (_anapaest meter_), “Pl.” 563 (_anapaest meter_), 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.131, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 237e, etc.; σ. τὸ κρατεῖν ἡδονῶν καὶ ἐπιθυμιῶν [prev. author] “Smp.” 196c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σ. τὸ περὶ τὰς γυναῖκας (i.e. ἔργον) [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1263b9, compare “EN” 1117b23, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 68c, “R.” 430ef, NT.1Tim.2.9. ] NT+5th c.BC+]
__3 in a political sense, a moderate form of government, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.64. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]