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This state is called [Greek: sophrosyne], and the man in it [Greek: sophron].
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This word is not applied only to freedom from intoxication by spirituous liquors, but is synonymous with calmness, quietness, grave, sedate, steady, serious, solemn, etc. The Greek “_sophron_” for sober in these texts means sound mindedness.
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Tolma men gar alogistos, andria philetairos enomisthae, mellasis te promaethaes, deilia euprepaes to de sophron.
missanthropist commented on the word sophron
anc. Greek Chaste, modest. Diminutive of Sophronia.
July 9, 2008