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νήφων

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem Transliteration:

Principal Part: νήφων νήφονος

Structure: νηφων (Stem)

Sense

  1. sober

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • περιῄει γὰρ ἑώθεν ὁ ἄθλιοσ ἐστεφανωμένοσ, κραιπαλῶν, διὰ τῆσ ἀγορᾶσ μέσησ καταυλούμενοσ, οὐδέποτε νήφων, κωμάζων ἐπὶ πάντασ, ὕβρισ τῶν προγόνων καὶ τῆσ πόλεωσ ὅλησ καί γέλωσ τοῖσ ξένοισ. (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 17:3)
  • εἰ δὲ παιδιὰ καὶ τρυφὴ πρόσεστιν αὐτοῖσ, οὐδεὶσ φθόνοσ, καὶ μάλιστα εἰ λογίσαιτό τισ, οἱο͂σ ἂν οὗτοσ νήφων ἦν, ὅπου ταῦτα μεθύων ποιεῖ. (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 2:3)
  • ᾗ κ[αὶ] δεινόν ἐστιν [ε]ἰ τοὺσ μὲν σοὺσ προγόνουσ ὁ δῆμοσ οὐδὲ μεθυσθέντι ᾤετο δεῖν ἐξεῖναι κακῶσ εἰπεῖν, σὺ δὲ νήφων τὸν δῆμον κακ[ῶσ] λέγεισ. (Hyperides, Speeches, 11:5)
  • πλὴν ἀλλὰ καὶ νήφων οὐδενὶ τῶν πρωτείων παραχωρήσειεν ἂν ψεύσματοσ ἕνεκα ἢ θρασύτητοσ ἢ φιλαργυρίασ· (Lucian, Timon, (no name) 54:4)
  • ὁ μὲν οὖν μεθύων ληρεῖ παρ’ οἶνον, ὁ δ’ ἀδόλεσχοσ πανταχοῦ ληρεῖ ἐν ἀγορᾷ ἐν θεάτρῳ ἐν περιπάτῳ ἐν μέθῃ νήφων ἡμέραν νύκτωρ· (Plutarch, De garrulitate, section 4 4:3)

Synonyms

  1. sober

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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