The corpus record

σᾰφήν-εια

sapheneia · ἡ

clearness, distinctness

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Where it lives

Seven Against Thebes 1 · 1.99/10k
Ars Poetica 1 · 0.99/10k
Sophist 1 · 0.62/10k
Phaedrus 1 · 0.6/10k
Statesman 1 · 0.59/10k
Philebus 1 · 0.57/10k
Republic 5 · 0.56/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 4 · 0.37/10k
Enneads 4 · 0.19/10k
Nicomachean Ethics 1 · 0.18/10k
Laws 1 · 0.1/10k

What it meant — LSJ

clearness, distinctness, the plain truth, clear knowledge

clearness, distinctness. Pl. Phdr. 277d; opp. ἀσάφεια, Id. R. 478c; πάσῃ σ. λαβεῖν τι Id. Sph. 254c; σ. τινός Id. R. 524c; τῶν χορδῶν Id. Lg. 812d; τὴν τοῦ στόματος σ. Isoc. 15.189; τῶν πραχθέντων τὴν σ. πυθέσθαι to learn the plain truth, Antipho 1.13; σαφηνείᾳ λόγου εἰδώς τι A. Th. 67; clear knowledge, σ. θεοὶ ἔχοντι Alcmaeon 1.

In the wild

σαφηνείᾳ · saphēneiai Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 66–68
σαφήνειαν · saphēneian Aristotle, Ars Poetica 22
σαφηνείας · saphēneias Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1108a (DIORISIS sentence 552)
σαφήνειαν · saphēneian Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 8649)
σαφήνεια · saphēneia Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.1 (DIORISIS sentence 5875)
σαφήνεια · saphēneia Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.1 (DIORISIS sentence 5873)

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