Sobriety
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
sobriety · moderation · modesty · temperately
in the texts
Against Meidias
The disciplined public conduct that punishment of Meidias would teach.
And yet now, when his guilt has been established, when the people, sitting in a sacred building, have anticipated his condemnation, when all the other crimes of this miscreant have been sifted, when it has fallen to your lot to be his judges and it lies in your power to conclude the whole affair by a single vote—now, I say, will you hesitate to succor me, to gratify the people, to give all a lesso …
Areopagiticus
A civic virtue of moderation, restraint, and disciplined conduct praised in the ancestral order.
For even the public festivals, which might otherwise have drawn many to the city, were not conducted with extravagance or ostentation, but with sane moderation, since our people then measured their well-being, not by their processions or by their efforts to outdo each other in fitting out the choruses, or by any such empty shows, but by the sobriety of their government, by the manner of their dail …
whereas poverty and lowliness are attended by sobriety and great moderation;
For our forefathers placed such strong emphasis upon sobriety that they put the supervision of decorum in charge of the Council of the Areopagus—a body which was composed exclusively of men who were of noble birth and had exemplified in their lives exceptional virtue and sobriety, and which, therefore, naturally excelled all the other councils of Hellas.