conscience

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

substantive

V. σύνεσις, ἡ (Euripides, Orestes 396), P. τὸ συνειδέναι.

to have guilt on one's conscience: P. and V. συνειδέναι ἑαυτῷ ἀδικῶν or ἀδικοῦντι.

something that weighs on one's conscience: P. and V. ἐνθύμιον, τό.

satisfying their consciences with this at least, that they had not voted anything harmful to the city: P. τοῦτο γοῦν σφίσιν αὐτοῖς συνειδότες ὅτι οὐδὲν κακὸν τῇ πόλει ἐψηφίσαντο (Lys. 127).

his determination never reached to this point, but shrank back, for a guilty conscience kept it in thrall: P. οὔκουν προσῄει πρὸς ταῦθ' ἡ διάνοια ἀλλ' ἀνεδύετο· ἐπελαμβάνετο γὰρ αὐτῆς τὸ συνειδέναι (Dem. 406).

keep a clear conscicnce, v.: use P. and V. εὐσεβεῖν.

a clear conscience, subs.: use P. and V. εὐσέβεια, ἡ, τὸ εὐσεβές.

with a clear conscience: use adv., P. and V. εὐσεβῶς.