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ἔμφρων

emphron

in oneʼs mind

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Where it lives

Ion 5 · 12.46/10k
Epinomis 5 · 7.93/10k
Hipparchus 1 · 4.44/10k
Timaeus 8 · 3.38/10k
Epistles 4 · 2.36/10k
Critias 1 · 2.02/10k
Laws 20 · 1.94/10k
Libation Bearers 1 · 1.86/10k
Meditations 5 · 1.72/10k
Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
Philebus 3 · 1.7/10k
Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k

Densest 12 of 31 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ἔμφρων · emphrōn — LSJ

in oneʼs mind, senses, sensible

in oneʼs mind or senses, sensible: opp.,

1 to thy senses, to myself

to one mad, σε Ζεὺς τίθησιν ἔμφρονα brings thee to thy senses, A. Pr. 848; ἔ. εἰμί Id. Ch. 1026; ἔ. καθίσταμαι I come to myself, S. Aj. 306; ποιητὴς . . οὐκ ἔ. ἐστίν Pl. Lg. 719c; ἀντὶ μανικῶν . . ἑξεις ἔμφρονας ἔχειν ib. 791b.

2 recover from

to one dead, ἔτʼ ἔ. S. Ant. 1237, cf. Antipho 2.3.2; ἔ. γίγνεσθαι to recover from a swoon or lethargy, Hp. Coac. 136.

to one asleep, S.E. M. 7.129.

II rational, intelligent, of discretion

rational, intelligent, ζῷα ἔ., opp. εἴδωλα ἄφρ., X. Mem. 1.4.4; also ζωή, βίος ἔ., Pl. R. 521a, Ti. 36e; ἡ πρεσβυτῶν ἔ. παιδιά Id. Lg. 769a; τέχνη -εστέρα Arist. Rh. 1359b6; ὅταν ἐς ἥβην ἐξικώμεθʼ ἔμφρονες when we come to years of discretion, prob. in S. Fr. 583.6.

2 sensible, prudent, wise, experts, sensibly, wisely

sensible, prudent, Thgn. 1126, Pi. O. 9.74, S. OT 436; ἔ. σωφροσύνη Th. 1.84; ἔ. περί τι wise about or in a thing, Pl. Lg. 809d; τῶν δημιουργῶν ἢ τῶν ἄλλων τῶν ἐ. ἀνδρῶν experts, Id. Hipparch. 226c. Adv. -όνως sensibly, wisely, Id. R. 396d, al., Antiph. 104: Comp. -έστερον Phalar. Ep. 67.3: Sup. -έστατα Plu. Ant. 14.

In the wild

ἔμφρων · emphrōn Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 1026–1028
ἔμφρονα · emphrona Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 848–849
ἔμφρων · emphrōn Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..18 (DIORISIS sentence 225)
ἔμφρων · emphrōn Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics 3
ἔμφρονα · emphrona Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1101a (DIORISIS sentence 289)
ἐμφρονεστέρας · emphronesteras Aristotle, Rhetoric 1

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