σῐωπ-ή,
rarely σωπή (which see), ἡ, silence, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1075, “fragment” 928, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 911; σ. ὑπεσημάνθη 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.32 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σ. ποιεῖν, ποιεῖσθαι, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 6.3.10, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 12.234 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἦν σ. there was a hush or calm, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1623, 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 2.35: _plural_, τῶν ἀπειράτων ἄγνωστοι σ] Refs 5th c.BC+]. inglorious silence is their lot who make no venture, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 4(3).30 (48). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 the habit of silence, ἐκ τῆς σ. τὴν τῆς σωφροσύνης δόξαν θηρᾶσθαι [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 61.21, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.39b, etc. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II dative σιωπῇ as adverb, in silence, the only case used by [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, ἀκὴν ἐγένοντο σιωπῇ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.95, etc.; σ. ἧσο 4.412 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐπ᾽ ὀφρύσι νεῦσε σ. made a sign without speaking,[[ 9.620; σ. πίνειν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.339; σ. πάσχειν ἄλγεα 13.309, compare 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.57 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; στῆναι, πορεύεσθαι, καθῆσθαι σ., [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 930, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 5.3.43, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 48.31 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; secretly, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.310; σιωπῇ τοῦτ᾽ ἀκύρωτον μένει 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 801, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 1212. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]