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σωφροσύνη • ‎(sōphrosúnē) f ‎(genitive σωφροσύνης); first declension

soundness of mind, prudence, discretion; sanity
- 386 BCE – 367 BCE, Plato, Meno 73.b
  Σωκράτης τῶν αὐτῶν ἄρα ἀμφότεροι δέονται, εἴπερ μέλλουσιν ἀγαθοὶ εἶναι, καὶ ἡ γυνὴ καὶ ὁ ἀνήρ, δικαιοσύνης καὶ σωφροσύνης.
  Socrates: Then men and women both need the same things, if they want to be good: justice and prudence.
moderation in sensual desires, self-control, temperance
- 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 196.c
  εἶναι γὰρ ὁμολογεῖται σωφροσύνη τὸ κρατεῖν ἡδονῶν καὶ ἐπιθυμιῶν
  For it is agreed that prudence is the restraining of pleasures and desires.
(politics) a moderate form of government

First declension of ἡ σωφροσύνη; τῆς σωφροσύνης

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ σωφροσύνη	τὼ σωφροσύνᾱ	αἱ σωφροσῦναι
Genitive	τῆς σωφροσύνης	τοῖν σωφροσύναιν	τῶν σωφροσυνῶν
Dative	τῇ σωφροσύνῃ	τοῖν σωφροσύναιν	ταῖς σωφροσύναις
Accusative	τὴν σωφροσύνην	τὼ σωφροσύνᾱ	τᾱ̀ς σωφροσύνᾱς
Vocative	σωφροσύνη	σωφροσύνᾱ	σωφροσῦναι
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

σωφροσύνη in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
«σωφροσύνη» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
“G4997”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- abstemiousness idem, page 4.
- abstinence idem, page 4.
- asceticism idem, page 43.
- continence idem, page 168.
- control idem, page 170.
- discretion idem, page 231.
- judiciousness idem, page 465.
- moderation idem, page 537.
- prudence idem, page 655.
- restraint idem, page 705.
- sagacity idem, page 731.
- self-denial idem, page 751.
- sobriety idem, page 790.
- temperance idem, page 860.
- wisdom idem, page 982.