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σωφρονικός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σωφρονικός σωφρονική σωφρονικόν

Structure: σωφρονικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: sw/frwn

Sense

  1. naturally temperate, moderate, sober

Examples

  • οἱ δὲ βουλόμενοι σωφρονικοὶ εἶναι σφόδρα μέχρι τινὸσ διατηροῦσιν ἐν τοῖσ πότοισ τὸ τοιοῦτον εἶθ’ ὅταν παρεισδυῇ τὸ οἰνάριον, τὴν πᾶσαν ἀσχημοσύνην ἐπιδείκνυνται· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 86 1:5)
  • διὸ σωφρονικοὶ φαίνονται οἱ τηλικοῦτοι· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 13 13:2)
  • καὶ γὰρ δίκαιοι καὶ σωφρονικοὶ καὶ ἀνδρεῖοι καὶ τἆλλα ἔχομεν εὐθὺσ ἐκ γενετῆσ· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 6 103:1)

Synonyms

  1. naturally temperate

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

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