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σωφρόνημα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: σωφρόνημα σωφρόνηματος

Structure: σωφρονηματ (Stem)

Etym.: from swfrone/w

Sense

  1. an instance of temperance

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

  • τὸ δὲ Μεγαβάτου τοῦ Σπιθριδάτου παιδὸσ ἐρασθέντα ὥσπερ ἂν τοῦ καλλίστου ἡ σφοδροτάτη φύσισ ἐρασθείη, ἔπειτα, ἡνίκα ἐπιχωρίου ὄντοσ τοῖσ Πέρσαισ φιλεῖν οὓσ ἂν τιμῶσιν ἐπεχείρησε καὶ ὁ Μεγαβάτησ φιλῆσαι τὸν Ἀγησίλαον, διαμάχεσθαι ἀνὰ κράτοσ τὸ μὴ φιληθῆναι, ἆρ’ οὐ τοῦτό γε ἤδη τὸ σωφρόνημα καὶ δαιμόνιον; (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 5 5:3)

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

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