sophrosyne

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II. A Modern Mantra Wisdom, judgment, wit and sense; Sophrosyne, intelligence; Keep these close and you will live a life without regret.

From Washington Post • Jul. 21, 2016

Dionysius had three children by Doris, and by Aristomache four, two of which were daughters, Sophrosyne and Arete.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh

Sophrosyne was married to his son Dionysius; Arete, to his brother Thearides, after whose death, Dion received his niece Arete to wife.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh

The poetic expression of this refining process, this striving towards the classic ideal, towards Sophrosyne, was Iphigenia.

From The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times by Biese, Alfred

His son by Doris, Dionysius, married Sophrosyne, his daughter by Aristomache.

From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham