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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

  • τὰ δὲ τῶν φυλετῶν τῶν αὑτοῦ λαμβάνων ὁ σωφρονιστὴσ ἕκαστοσ ἀγοράζει τὰ ἐπιτήδεια πᾶσιν εἰσ τὸ κοινόν συσσιτοῦσι γὰρ κατὰ φυλάσ, καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἐπιμελεῖται πάντων. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 42 3:2)
  • ἑξῆσ δέ φησιν ὅτι ζητήσεισ ἦσαν παρὰ πότον τράγημα γὰρ ὁ σωφρονιστὴσ πᾶσιν ἐν μέσῳ λόγοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 15 4:1)
  • ἐμοὶ μὲν οὖν, ὦ πάτερ, ἱκανώτατοσ σωφρονιστὴσ Ὅμηροσ καὶ ὁ τούτῳ πειρώμενοσ τὸν νοῦν προσέχειν εὐτυχέστατόσ τε καὶ ἄριστοσ βασιλεύσ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 66:1)
  • ὡσ ἐκ βραχείασ δαιτὸσ ἡ βαιὰ κύλιξ αὐτοῖσ κυκλεῖται πρὸσ μέτρον, τράγημα δὲ ὁ σωφρονιστὴσ τοῖσ φιληκόοισ λόγοσ. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, B, Kef. iz'. MENEDHMOS 15:3)

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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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