σώφρονες (sophrones)

σώφρονες is an Ancient Greek form of σώφρων, meaning “prudent”. It is the nominative plural masculine adjective.

Found 56 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Hippolytus 358: οἱ σώφρονες γὰρ οὐχ ἑκόντες, ἀλλ’ ὅμως

Pindar, Isthmean 8.25: ἀρίστευον υἱέες υἱέων τʼ ἀρηΐφιλοι παῖδες ἀνορέᾳ χάλκεον στονόεντʼ ἀμφέπειν ὅμαδον· σώφρονές τʼ ἐγένοντο πινυτοί τε θυμόν.

All forms of σώφρων (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.