Sobrius, Adiectiuum. Cic.Sober: not drunke: well aduised.Inter sobrios vinolentus.Cic.Tu pol homo non es sobrius. Teren. In faith thou arte not well in thy wits or well aduised.Cor sobrium.Plaut.Nou sobria diuitijs mens. Cland. A minde drowned in the couetous desire of riches.Nox sobria. Prop. A night wherein one hath little dronke.Dedisti virgo operam landabilem & sobriam. Plan Mayd thou hast holpen me well, in that thou hast spoken soberly.Paupertas sobria. Clau. Pocula sobria. Tibul. Rura sobria.Stat.Where no wine is made.Terræ sobriæ.Stat.Where little wine is.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
sōbrĭus (sōbrĕus), a, um (comp. sobrior, Laber. ap. Charis. p. 64; elsewhere not compared), adj. [cf. Gr. sw/frwn, sa/os; Lat. sanus], not drunk, sober (freq. and class.). I.Lit., opp. vinolentus, Cic. Ac. 2, 17, 52; so id. Or. 28, 99; opp. vino madens, Plaut. Truc. 4, 4, 2; opp. madidus, id. Am. 3, 4, 18; cf. Hor. S. 2, 3, 5; Cato Utic. ap. Suet. Caes. 53; and ap. Quint. 8, 2, 9; opp. ebrius, Sen. Ep. 18, 4 (with siccus); Mart. 3, 16, 3; opp. temulentus, Tac. A. 13, 15 et saep.: male sobrius, i. e. ebrius, Tib. 1, 10, 51; Ov. F. 6, 785.—B.Transf., of things (poet. and post-Aug. prose; cf. ebrius): pocula, Tib. 1, 6, 28 (24): lympha mixta mero, id. 2, 1, 46: nox,
, Stat. S. 4, 2, 37; cf. Suet. Dom. 7: sobrium vicum Romae dictum putant, vel quod in eo nulla taberna fuerit, vel quod in eo Mercurio lacte, non vino supplicabatur, Fest. pp. 296 and 297 Müll.: non sobria verba, i. e.
of a drunken person
, Mart. 1, 28, 5: paupertas, Claud. IV. Cons. Hon. 411: lares pauperes nostros, sed plane sobrios revisamus, App. M. 5, p. 163, 31.—II. In gen., sober, moderate, temperate, continent: parcus ac sobrius, Ter. Ad. 1, 2, 15: vigilans ac sollers, sicca, sana, sobria, Afran. ap. Non. 21, 33 (Com. Rel. p. 148 Rib.): homines frugi ac sobrii, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 27, 67: auream quisquis mediocritatem Diligit ... caret invidendā Sobrius aulā, Hor. C. 2, 10, 8; Vell. 2, 63, 1: non aestimatur voluptas illa Epicuri, quam sobria et sicca sit, Sen. Vit. Beat. 12, 4: corda, Stat. S. 5, 1, 78: vetus illa Romana virtus et sobria, Amm. 15, 4, 3; opp. libidinosus, Lact. 3, 26, 7.—B.Trop., of the mind, sober, even-minded, clever, sensible, prudent, reasonable, cautious (syn.: mentis compos, sanus): satin' sanus es aut sobrius?Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 29; cf.: satis credis sobriam esse, id. Eun. 4, 4, 36: tu homo non es sobrius, id. And. 4, 4, 39: vigilantes homines, sobrii, industrii, Cic. Cael. 31, 74: diligentes et memores et sobrii oratores, id. de Or. 2, 32, 140; opp. iracundus, Vell. 2, 41, 1: alte sobria ferre pedem,
prudently
, Ov. Am. 1, 12, 6.—Of things: opera Proba et sapiens et sobria, Plaut. Pers. 4, 5, 2: ingenium siccum ac sobrium, Sen. Ep. 114, 3: violenta et rapida Carneades dicebat, modesta Diogenes et sobria, Gell. 7, 14, 10.—Hence, adv.: sōbrĭē (acc. to II. A. and B.). 1.Moderately, temperately, frugally: vivere (with parce, continenter, severe; opp. diffluere luxuriā), Cic. Off. 1, 30, 106.—2.Prudently, sensibly, circumspectly, = prudenter: ut hoc sobrie agatur, Plaut. Capt. 2, 1, 29: curare aliquid, id. Mil. 3, 1, 215: hanc rem accurare, id. Ps. 4, 1, 29; id. Pers. 4, 1, 1.