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σωφρονιστής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σωφρονιστής σωφρονιστοῦ

Structure: σωφρονιστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: swfroni/zw

Sense

  1. one that makes temperate, a chastener, chastiser
  2. counselor, preceptor

Declension

First 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

  • ἐπὰν δὲ δοκιμασθῶσιν οἱ ἔφηβοι, συλλεγέντεσ οἱ πατέρεσ αὐτῶν κατὰ φυλάσ, ὀμόσαντεσ αἱροῦνται τρεῖσ ἐκ τῶν φυλετῶν τῶν ὑπὲρ τετταράκοντα ἔτη γεγονότων, οὓσ ἂν ἡγῶνται βελτίστουσ εἶναι καὶ ἐπιτηδειοτάτουσ ἐπιμελεῖσθαι τῶν ἐφήβων, ἐκ δὲ τούτων ὁ δῆμοσ ἕνα τῆσ φυλῆσ ἑκάστησ χειροτονεῖ σωφρονιστήν, καὶ κοσμητὴν ἐκ τῶν ἄλλων Ἀθηναίων ἐπὶ πάντασ. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 42 2:2)
  • πολὺ δὲ μᾶλλον ἐν τούτοισ νομίζοντεσ ἡ ταῖσ ὑπαίθροισ καὶ πολιτικαῖσ πράξεσι τρόπον ἀνδρὸσ ἐνορᾶσθαι, φύλακα καὶ σωφρονιστὴν καὶ κολαστὴν τοῦ μηδένα καθ’ ἡδονὰσ ἐκτρέπεσθαι καὶ παρεκβαίνειν τὸν ἐπιχώριον καὶ συνήθη βίον ᾑροῦντο τῶν καλουμένων πατρικίων ἕνα καὶ τῶν δημοτικῶν ἕνα. (Plutarch, Marcus Cato, chapter 16 2:1)

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

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