σωφρονιστήρ
δυοῖν κακοῖν προκειμένοιν τὸ μὴ χεῖρον βέλτιστον → the lesser of two evils, the less bad thing of a pair of bad things, better the devil you know, better the devil you know than the devil you don't, better the devil you know than the devil you don't know, better the devil you know than the one you don't, better the devil you know than the one you don't know, the devil that you know is better than the devil that you don't know, the devil we know is better than the devil we don't, the devil we know is better than the devil we don't know, the devil you know is better than the devil you don't
English (LSJ)
ῆρος, ὁ,
A = σωφρονιστής, Plu.Cat.Ma.27. II pl., wisdom-teeth (= κραντῆρες), Hp.Carn.13, Cleanth.Stoic.1.118, Ruf.Onom.51, Hsch., etc. III σωφρονιστὴρ λίθος at Thebes, which restored reason to Heracles, Paus.9.11.2.
German (Pape)
[Seite 1062] ῆρος, ὁ, = σωφρονιστής; Plut. Cat. mai. 27; γυναικῶν, S. Emp. adv. mus. 11; im plur. die Weisheitszähne, Hippocr.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
σωφρονιστήρ: ῆρος, ὁ, = σωφρονιστής, Πλουτ. Κάτ. Πρεσβ. 27. ΙΙ. ἐν τῷ πληθ., οἱ ὀδόντες τῆς φρονήσεως, ἄλλως κραντῆρες, Ἱππ. 252. 29, Ἡσύχ., κλπ.
French (Bailly abrégé)
ῆρος (ὁ) :
conseiller, précepteur, moniteur.
Étymologie: σωφρονίζω.
Greek Monolingual
-ῆρος, ὁ, ΜΑ
βλ. σωφρονιστήρας.
Greek Monotonic
σωφρονιστήρ: -ῆρος, ὁ, = σωφρονιστής, σε Πλάτ.
Russian (Dvoretsky)
σωφρονιστήρ: ῆρος ὁ наставник, руководитель, учитель (δήμων καὶ ἀρχόντων Plut.).
Dutch (Woordenboekgrieks.nl)
σωφρονιστήρ -ῆρος, ὁ [σωφρονίζω] vermaner, terechtwijzer. ( geneesk. ) verstandskies
