sophrosune

The word sophrosune is the salvation (soteria) of that wisdom (phronesis) which we were just now considering.

The CRATYLUS Plato 1975

The word sophrosune is the salvation (soteria) of that wisdom (phronesis) which we were just now considering.

Cratylus 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

The Hellene has a quality that we call "sophrosune".

Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003

[24] Or, "true and honest"; "any woman worthy of the name." {sophroni} = with the {sophrosune} of womanhood; possibly transl. "discreet and sober-minded."

The Economist 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874

(sophrosune) in the Charmides end in an impasse partly owing to the difficulty of specifying the subject of the knowledge that is the essence of this virtue.

Plato's Shorter Ethical Works Woodruff, Paul 2005

503 Or, “but as prior to those excellences must be engrafted in them sophrosune (the virtues of temperance and sanity of soul).”

Memorabilia 2007

“any woman worthy of the name.” sophroni = with the sophrosune of womanhood; possibly transl. “discreet and sober-minded.”

Oeconomicus 2007

Phronesis is only phoras kai rou noesis, or perhaps phoras onesis, and in any case is connected with pheresthai; gnome is gones skepsis kai nomesis; noesis is neou or gignomenon esis; the word neos implies that creation is always going on -- the original form was neoesis; sophrosune is soteria phroneseos; episteme is e epomene tois pragmasin -- the faculty which keeps close, neither anticipating nor lagging behind; sunesis is equivalent to sunienai, sumporeuesthai ten psuche, and is a kind of conclusion -- sullogismos tis, akin therefore in idea to episteme; sophia is very difficult, and has a foreign look -- the meaning is, touching the motion or stream of things, and may be illustrated by the poetical esuthe and the Lacedaemonian proper name

Cratylus 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

(This is why we call temperance (sophrosune) by this name; we imply that it preserves one’s practical wisdom (sozousa tan phronsin).

The Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle 2002

(This is why we call temperance (sophrosune) by this name; we imply that it preserves one's practical wisdom (sozousa tan phronsin).

The NICOMACHEAN ETHICS Aristotle 1865