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Headword:
Sôphronein
Adler number: sigma,882
Translated headword: to be prudent
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Sophocles [writes]: "do not judge, do not investigate; to be prudent [is] a fine thing."[1] Now[2] [sc. the topic is] not being meddlesome; for in these matters especially is women's propriety preserved, if they do not meddle about in what their husband is doing.
Greek Original:Sôphronein: Sophoklês: mê krine, mê 'xetaze: sôphronein kalon. nun to mê periergein: en toutois gar malista hê sôphrosunê tais gunaixi diasôizetai, ei mê periergazontai ho ti prattei ho anêr.
Notes:
The headword, extracted from the quotation given, is present active infinitive of the verb
swfrone/w. For related words see
sigma 883 through
sigma 894.
[1]
Sophocles Ajax 586 (web address 1), with comments derived from the
scholia thereto.
[2] Or: here.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; gender and sexuality; tragedy; women
Translated by: William Hutton on 16 March 2014@16:50:03.
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