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σωφρονισμός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σωφρονισμός

Structure: σωφρονισμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. teaching of morality or moderation

Declension

Second 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

  • πειρατέον οὖν εἰσ τὸν τῶν τέκνων σωφρονισμὸν πάνθ’ ὅσα προσῆκεν ἐπιτηδεύειν, ζηλώσαντασ Εὐρυδίκην, ἣτισ Ἰλλυρὶσ οὖσα καὶ τριβάρβαροσ, ὅμωσ ἐπὶ τῇ μαθήσει τῶν τέκνων ὀψὲ τῆσ ἡλικίασ ἥψατο παιδείασ. (Plutarch, De liberis educandis, section 20 4:2)
  • εἰσὶ γὰρ οἳ καὶ τόδε νομίζουσιν, αὐτὸν ἐσ Ῥωμαίων σωφρονισμὸν ἐθελῆσαι γείτονα καὶ ἀντίπαλον αὐτοῖσ φόβον ἐσ ἀεὶ καταλιπεῖν, ἵνα μή ποτε ἐξυβρίσειαν ἐν μεγέθει τύχησ καὶ ἀμεριμνία. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 9 11:5)
  • ἄλλωσ τε ἐπειδὴ καὶ πολλὴν ἔχει πίστιν τοῦ θεοῦ τῆσ δυνάμεωσ καὶ παραμυθίαν τοῖσ ἐν τύχαισ κειμένοισ καὶ σωφρονισμὸν τοῖσ οἰομένοισ ἀίδιον τὴν εὐτυχίαν, ἀλλὰ μὴ ἐπιμεταφέρειν κακῶσ ἀρετῆσ αὐτῇ μὴ παραγενομένησ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 19 19:1)

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

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