σοφός
Alt. σοφός, ή, όν
I. properly, "skilled in any handicraft or art, cunning in his craft", Theogn., etc; of a charioteer, Pind.; of poets and musicians, id=Pind.; of a soothsayer, Soph., etc.
2. "clever in matters of common life, wise, prudent, shrewd", ς. ἄνδρες Θεσσαλοί "shrewd" fellows, the Thessalians! Hdt.; πολλὰ σοφός Aesch.; μείζω σοφίαν σοφός Plat., etc.; τῶν σοφῶν κρείσσω better "than all craft", Soph.; σοφόν [ἐστι] c. inf., Eur.
3. "skilled in the sciences, learned, profound, wise", id=Eur., Plat., etc.; hence, ironically, "abstruse, obscure", Ar., etc.
II. pass., of things, "cleverly devised, wise", Hdt., etc.; σοφώτερ᾽ ἢ κατ᾽ ἄνδρα συμβαλεῖν things "too clever" for man to understand, Eur.
III. adv. σοφῶς, "cleverly, wisely", Soph., Eur., etc.:—comp. -ώτερον, Eur.: Sup. -ώτατα, id=Eur.