The corpus record

σωφρον-ικός

sophronikos

naturally temperate, self-controlled

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Where it lives

Knights 1 · 1.13/10k
Statesman 1 · 0.59/10k
Memorabilia 2 · 0.56/10k
Rhetoric 1 · 0.23/10k
Nicomachean Ethics 1 · 0.18/10k

What it meant

σωφρον-ικός · sōphron-ikos — LSJ

naturally temperate, self-controlled

naturally temperate, self-controlled, of persons, X. Mem. 1.3.9, Arist. Rh. 1390a14, EN 1144b5, etc.; οἱ βουλόμενοι σ. εἶναι (ironically) Stoic. 1.100; σ. τὴν ἀναβολήν Luc. Tim. 54. Adv. -κῶς Ar. Eq. 545, Sor. 1.33: Comp. -ώτερον Ath. 10.426c.

of things, Pl. Plt. 307a; σεμνότης Plb. 22.20.2, etc.; σωφρονικωτέρα τροφή Muson. Fr. 18Bp.104 H.; τὸ σ. X. Mem. 3.10.5, cf. Metrod. Herc. 831.15; τὰ σ. καὶ ἀνδρεῖα Phld. Mus. p.50 K.

In the wild

σωφρονικῶς · sōphronikōs Aristophanes, Knights (DIORISIS sentence 426)
σωφρονικοὶ · sōphronikoi Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1144b (DIORISIS sentence 2200)
σωφρονικοὶ · sōphronikoi Aristotle, Rhetoric 2
σωφρονικά · sōphronika Plato, Statesman 307
σωφρονικῶν · sōphronikōn Xenophon, Memorabilia 1.3.9 (DIORISIS sentence 262)
σωφρονικόν · sōphronikon Xenophon, Memorabilia 3.10.5 (DIORISIS sentence 1360)

Where it came from

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