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.
whereas poverty and lowliness are attended by sobriety and great moderation;
To contradict one’s elders or to be impudent to them was then considered more reprehensible than it is nowadays to sin against one’s parents;
And so strictly did they avoid the market-place that even when they were at times compelled to pass through it, they were seen to do this with great modesty and sobriety of manner.