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σοφίας (sophias)

σοφίας is an Ancient Greek form of σοφία, meaning “wisdom, skill”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun.

Found 370 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.5.27: … , οἳ λανθάνουσιν ἑαυτοὺς διʼ ὧν σκώπτουσιν ἐπαινοῦντες αὐτόν. Ἀριστοφάνης μὲν οὕτως· ὦ τῆς μεγάλης ἐπιθυμήσας σοφίας ἄνθρωπε δικαίως, ὡς εὐδαίμων παρʼ Ἀθηναίοις καὶ τοῖς Ἕλλησι διάξεις. εἶ γὰρ μνήμων καὶ φροντιστής, καὶ τὸ ταλ …

Eusebius of Caesarea, Ecclesiastical History 5.8.8: καὶ ῥητοῖς δέ τισιν ἐκ τῆς Σολομῶνος Σοφίας κέχρηται, μόνον οὐχὶ φάσκων· ὅρασις δὲ θεοῦ περιποιητικὴ ἀφθαρσίας, ἀφθαρσία δὲ ἐγγὺς εἶναι ποιεῖ θεοῦ. καὶ ἀ …

All forms of σοφία (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.