σώφρων,
Epic dialect and poetry σᾰόφρων (as in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, see below, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Pae.” 9.46)] Refs 8th c.BC+], ονος, ὁ, ἡ: neuter σῶφρον:—properly of sound mind (from σῶς, φρήν, [[compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 411e, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1140b11)] Refs 5th c.BC+]: hence, discreet, prudent, οὐκ ἄν με σαόφρονα μυθήσαιο ἔμμεναι [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.462, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.158 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; opposed to ἄφρων, [[ 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 431, 454, 497 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; opposed to νήπιος, [[ [prev. author] 483 ] Refs]; opposed to ἀνόητος, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.4; σώφρονες περὶ θεούς 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 4.3.2; σωφρονέστατος ἐν τῇ τέχνῃ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “προρρητικόν” 2.2. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 of things, τοῖσι λόγοις σῶφρον ἔπεστιν ἄνθος [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1025 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σ. οἶκτος reasonable compassion, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.59; -έστατον κήρυγμα 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.4; σώφρον᾽ εἶπας 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 1024; ἄλλο τι -έστερον γνώσεσθε 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.111 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σῶφρόν ἐστι with infinitive, [[ [prev. author] 1.42. ] Refs]
__II in Attic dialect, especially having control over the sensual desires, temperate, self-controlled, chaste (σώφρων ὁ μετρίας ἐπιθυμίας ἔχων [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Definitiones” 415d, compare σωφροσύνη 1), μοι δὸς -εστέραν πολὺ μητρὸς γενέσθαι 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 140, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 132 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; γυνὴ σ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 4.14, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 682; σ. καὶ ἐγκρατὴς ἑαυτοῦ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 491d, cf. NT.1Tim.3.2, etc. ] NT+5th c.BC+]