σῶφρον (sophron)

σῶφρον is an Ancient Greek form of σώφρων, meaning “prudent”. It is the accusative singular neuter adjective.

Found 65 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.37.2: ‘φασὶ δὲ ξυμμαχίαν διὰ τὸ σῶφρον οὐδενός πω δέξασθαι· τὸ δ’ ἐπὶ κακουργίᾳ καὶ οὐκ ἀρετῇ ἐπετήδευσαν, ξύμμαχόν τε οὐδένα βουλόμενοι πρὸς τἀδικήματα οὐδὲ μάρτυρα ἔχειν οὔτε παρακαλοῦντες αἰσχύνεσθαι.

Euripides, Andromache 594: ὡς δὴ γυναῖκα σώφρον’ ἐν δόμοις ἔχων

Euripides, The Trojan Women 645: ἃ γὰρ γυναιξὶ σώφρονʼ ἔσθʼ ηὑρημένα,

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.