Strong G5424φρήν
thinking
- Transliteration
- phrēn
- Pronunciation
- frane
- Morphology
- Greek Noun (Feminine)
Definition
Probably from an obsolete φράω phraō (to rein in or curb; compare G5420); the midrif (as a partition of the body) that is (figuratively and by implication of sympathy) the feelings (or sensitive nature; by extension [also in the plural] the mind or cognitive faculties): - understanding.
Detailed definition
φρήν genitive, φρενός, ἡ,
[in LXX most frequently in Pr (Pro.6:32, al.) and chiefly for לֵב; also 3Ma.4:16 3Mac 5:47;]
chiefly in Hom. and Trag., but also in Plat., al., both sing. and pl.;
1. in physical sense, the parts about the heart, midriff.
2. heart, mind, thought: pl., 1Co.14:20 (see Edwards, Eng.-Gr. Lex., App., 1).†
(AS)
[in LXX most frequently in Pr (Pro.6:32, al.) and chiefly for לֵב; also 3Ma.4:16 3Mac 5:47;]
chiefly in Hom. and Trag., but also in Plat., al., both sing. and pl.;
1. in physical sense, the parts about the heart, midriff.
2. heart, mind, thought: pl., 1Co.14:20 (see Edwards, Eng.-Gr. Lex., App., 1).†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G5424 appears in 1 verse of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- understanding1
First verses
- 1 Corinthians 14:20Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.
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Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
φρήν, ἡ,
genitive φρενός, plural φρένες, genitive φρενῶν, dative φρεσί: older dative plural φρασί (ν) [Refs 6th c.BC+ (“IG” 12.971 (6th c.BC), 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 3.62, “BMus.Inscription” 909 (Halic., 1st c.BC): (see. entry near the end))]:
I midriff, κραδία φρένα λακτίζει [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 881 (_anapaest meter_))]; elsewhere always in plural, ἔνθα φρένες ἔρχαται ἀμφ᾽ ἁδινὸν κῆρ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.481, compare 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀρχαίης ἰητρικῇς” 22, “Art.” 41)]; τὰς φρένας διάφραγμα εἰς τὸ μέσον αὐτῶν (i.e. τοῦ θώρακος καὶ τοῦ κύτους) τιθέντες [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 70a; τοῦτο δὲ τὸ διάζωμα καλοῦσί τινες φρένας, ὃ διορίζει τόν τε πλεύμονα καὶ τὴν καρδίαν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 672b11, compare “HA” 496b11, 506a6; also, in 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, more vaguely, πρὸς στῆθος ὅθι φρένες ἧπαρ ἔχουσι 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.301; μένεος φρένες ἀμφὶ μέλαιναι πίμπλαντ᾽ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.103, +others; φρένας.. εἰς αὐτὰς τυπείς 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 363, compare “Eu.” 159 (Lyric poetry).)]
I.2 heart, as seat of the passions, e.g. of fear, τρομέοντο δέ οἱ φρένες ἐντός [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.10)]; of joy and grief, φρένα τέρπεσθαι φόρμιγγι [Refs (9.186; γάνυται φρένα ποιμήν 13.493; τί σε φρένας ἵκετοπένθο; 1.362; ἄχος πύκασε φρένας 8.124; ἔρως φρένας ἀμφεκάλυψε 3.442)]; of anger, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.147)]; of courage, ἕνα φρεσὶ θυμὸν ἔχοντες [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.487; ἐς φρένα θυμὸς ἀγέρθη 22.475, compare 8.202)], etc.; of bodily appetites, such as hunger, etc., [Refs (11.89)]: the shades of the dead are without it, ψυχὴ καὶ εἴδωλον, ἀτὰρ φρένες οὐκ ἔνι πάμπαν [Refs (23.104)] (except the shade of Teiresias, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.493))]: so generally in Poets, φρενὸς ἔνδοθεν ἄλγεα κεῖται [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Solon Lyricus cited in 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 5.2; κῆλα δαιμόνων θέλγει φρένας 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 1.12; φόβος μ᾽ ἔχει φρένας 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 379; μαινομένα φρενί [prev. author] “Th.” 484 (Lyric poetry); στυγεῖν μιᾷ φρενί [prev. author] “Eu.” 986 (Lyric poetry); Διὸς γὰρ δυσπαραίτητοι φ. [prev. author] “Pr.” 34)]; ἐκ φρενός from one's very heart, ὁ ἐκ φρενὸς λόγος a sincere speech, [Refs ([prev. author] “Ch.” 107; ἐτύμως δακρυχέων ἐκ φρενός [prev. author] “Th.” 919 (Lyric poetry))]; οὐκ ἀπ᾽ ἄκρας φρενός not superficially and carelessly, [Refs ([prev. author] “Ag.” 805 (_anapaest meter_); φρενὸς ἐκ φιλίας [prev. work] 1515 (_anapaest meter_), compare 546)]; φῦσαι φρένας to produce a haughty spirit, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1463.)]
I.3 mind, as seat of the mental faculties, perception, thought, ἔγνω ᾗσιν ἐνὶ φ. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.296; μή μοι ταῦτα νόει φρεσί 9.600)]; μετὰ φρεσὶ μερμηρίξαι, βάλλεσθαι, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.438, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.434; ἴδμεν ἐνὶ φρεσίν 2.301)]; τῷ γὰρ ἐπὶ φρεσί θῆκε put in his mind, suggested it,[Refs (1.55; σφῶϊν δ᾽ ὧδε θεῶν τις ἐνὶ φρεσὶ ποιήσειεν 13.55; ἐν φρεσὶ θέσθε ἕκαστος [prev. work] 121, compare 1.297, etc.; φρένας παραπεῖσαι, πείθειν, 7.120, 16.842)]; ἐπιγνάμπτει φρένας (variant for{νόον}) ἐσθλῶν [Refs (9.514; Διὸς ἐτράπετο φρήν 10.45)]; ἀνὴρ φρένας ἀφνειός rich (only) in his imagination, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 455)]; ὀρθᾷ, ἐλευθέρᾳ φρενί, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 8.24, “P.” 2.57; φρένες γὰρ αὐτοῦ θυμὸν ᾠακοστρόφουν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 767; ἡ γλῶσσ᾽ ὀμώμοχ᾽, ἡ δὲ φ. ἀνώμοτος 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 612; κατὰ φρένα καὶ κατὰ θυμόν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.193, +others)]: plural, wits, Κύκλωπα περὶ φρένας ἤλυθε οἶνος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.362, compare 454, 18.331; πλήγη φρένας ἂς πάρος εἶχεν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.394; ἐκ γὰρ πλήγη φρένας 16.403; βλάπτε φρένας Ζεὺς ἡμετέρας 15.724; ἐξ... τοι θεοὶ φρένας ὤλεσαν 7.360; φρένας ἄφρων, φρένας ἠλέ or ἠλεέ, 4.104, 15.128, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.243)]: of losing one's wits, φρενῶν ἀφεστάναι, ἐκστῆναι, μεθεστάναι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 865, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1021, “Ba.” 944; τὰς φ. ἐκβάλλειν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 648; ἔξω φρενῶν 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 7.47; φρενῶν οὐκ ἔνδον ὤν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 709; φρενῶν κεκομμένος 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 479 (Lyric poetry); κενός 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 754; τητώμενοι [prev. author] “El.” 1326)]; ἔξεδροι, παράκοποι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 935, “Ba.” 33; ποῦ ποτ᾽ εἶ φρενῶ; 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 390; φρένες διάστροφοι 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 673, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 447; μαργότης φρενῶν [prev. author] “fragment” 846; ἀνακίνησις φρενῶν [prev. author] “OT” 727, etc.)]; of persons in their senses, ἐπήβολος φρενῶν [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Ant.” 492; ἀνδρὸς νοῦν ἔχοντος καὶ φρένας 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 535 (Lyric poetry))] (so in later Prose, οἱ φρένας ἔχοντες [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ ποιημάτων” 5.19, “Rh.” 1.240S.; οἱ τῶν σοφιστῶν τὰς κοινὰς φ. ἔχοντες [prev. work]202S.); also ἔσω φρενῶν λέγειν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1052; γράφου φρενῶν ἔσω 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1325; τῆς λεπτότητος τῶν φ. 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 153)]; φρένες, opposed to σῶμα, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.134; so αἱ σάρκες αἱ κεναὶ φρενῶν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 387)]; attributed to animals, μετὰ φρεσὶ γίγνεται ἀλκή [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.245, compare 16.157, etc.)]—The word is not common in early Prose, τίς αὐτῶν νόος ἢ φρή; [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 104)]; συμφορὰ τῶν φ., i.e. madness, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 2.7; παραλλάττει τῶν φ. 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator “Fragmenta” 90; καρποῦ μὲν ἀφθονία φρενῶν δὲ ἀφορία 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 4.55; νοῦς καὶ φρένες 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.324, compare 25.33.)]
I.4 will, purpose, οὔ τι Διὸς βέομαι φρεσίν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.194; σῆς ἀπεστάτουν φ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 993, compare “OC” 1182)].—In usage there is little or no distinction observable between singular and plural, but the singular is not found in Prose (except [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus [same place]) or Comedy texts (except in _paratragoedia_, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 886).)]
genitive φρενός, plural φρένες, genitive φρενῶν, dative φρεσί: older dative plural φρασί (ν) [Refs 6th c.BC+ (“IG” 12.971 (6th c.BC), 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 3.62, “BMus.Inscription” 909 (Halic., 1st c.BC): (see. entry near the end))]:
I midriff, κραδία φρένα λακτίζει [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 881 (_anapaest meter_))]; elsewhere always in plural, ἔνθα φρένες ἔρχαται ἀμφ᾽ ἁδινὸν κῆρ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.481, compare 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀρχαίης ἰητρικῇς” 22, “Art.” 41)]; τὰς φρένας διάφραγμα εἰς τὸ μέσον αὐτῶν (i.e. τοῦ θώρακος καὶ τοῦ κύτους) τιθέντες [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 70a; τοῦτο δὲ τὸ διάζωμα καλοῦσί τινες φρένας, ὃ διορίζει τόν τε πλεύμονα καὶ τὴν καρδίαν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 672b11, compare “HA” 496b11, 506a6; also, in 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, more vaguely, πρὸς στῆθος ὅθι φρένες ἧπαρ ἔχουσι 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.301; μένεος φρένες ἀμφὶ μέλαιναι πίμπλαντ᾽ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.103, +others; φρένας.. εἰς αὐτὰς τυπείς 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 363, compare “Eu.” 159 (Lyric poetry).)]
I.2 heart, as seat of the passions, e.g. of fear, τρομέοντο δέ οἱ φρένες ἐντός [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.10)]; of joy and grief, φρένα τέρπεσθαι φόρμιγγι [Refs (9.186; γάνυται φρένα ποιμήν 13.493; τί σε φρένας ἵκετοπένθο; 1.362; ἄχος πύκασε φρένας 8.124; ἔρως φρένας ἀμφεκάλυψε 3.442)]; of anger, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.147)]; of courage, ἕνα φρεσὶ θυμὸν ἔχοντες [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.487; ἐς φρένα θυμὸς ἀγέρθη 22.475, compare 8.202)], etc.; of bodily appetites, such as hunger, etc., [Refs (11.89)]: the shades of the dead are without it, ψυχὴ καὶ εἴδωλον, ἀτὰρ φρένες οὐκ ἔνι πάμπαν [Refs (23.104)] (except the shade of Teiresias, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.493))]: so generally in Poets, φρενὸς ἔνδοθεν ἄλγεα κεῖται [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Solon Lyricus cited in 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 5.2; κῆλα δαιμόνων θέλγει φρένας 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 1.12; φόβος μ᾽ ἔχει φρένας 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 379; μαινομένα φρενί [prev. author] “Th.” 484 (Lyric poetry); στυγεῖν μιᾷ φρενί [prev. author] “Eu.” 986 (Lyric poetry); Διὸς γὰρ δυσπαραίτητοι φ. [prev. author] “Pr.” 34)]; ἐκ φρενός from one's very heart, ὁ ἐκ φρενὸς λόγος a sincere speech, [Refs ([prev. author] “Ch.” 107; ἐτύμως δακρυχέων ἐκ φρενός [prev. author] “Th.” 919 (Lyric poetry))]; οὐκ ἀπ᾽ ἄκρας φρενός not superficially and carelessly, [Refs ([prev. author] “Ag.” 805 (_anapaest meter_); φρενὸς ἐκ φιλίας [prev. work] 1515 (_anapaest meter_), compare 546)]; φῦσαι φρένας to produce a haughty spirit, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1463.)]
I.3 mind, as seat of the mental faculties, perception, thought, ἔγνω ᾗσιν ἐνὶ φ. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.296; μή μοι ταῦτα νόει φρεσί 9.600)]; μετὰ φρεσὶ μερμηρίξαι, βάλλεσθαι, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.438, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.434; ἴδμεν ἐνὶ φρεσίν 2.301)]; τῷ γὰρ ἐπὶ φρεσί θῆκε put in his mind, suggested it,[Refs (1.55; σφῶϊν δ᾽ ὧδε θεῶν τις ἐνὶ φρεσὶ ποιήσειεν 13.55; ἐν φρεσὶ θέσθε ἕκαστος [prev. work] 121, compare 1.297, etc.; φρένας παραπεῖσαι, πείθειν, 7.120, 16.842)]; ἐπιγνάμπτει φρένας (variant for{νόον}) ἐσθλῶν [Refs (9.514; Διὸς ἐτράπετο φρήν 10.45)]; ἀνὴρ φρένας ἀφνειός rich (only) in his imagination, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 455)]; ὀρθᾷ, ἐλευθέρᾳ φρενί, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 8.24, “P.” 2.57; φρένες γὰρ αὐτοῦ θυμὸν ᾠακοστρόφουν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 767; ἡ γλῶσσ᾽ ὀμώμοχ᾽, ἡ δὲ φ. ἀνώμοτος 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 612; κατὰ φρένα καὶ κατὰ θυμόν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.193, +others)]: plural, wits, Κύκλωπα περὶ φρένας ἤλυθε οἶνος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.362, compare 454, 18.331; πλήγη φρένας ἂς πάρος εἶχεν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.394; ἐκ γὰρ πλήγη φρένας 16.403; βλάπτε φρένας Ζεὺς ἡμετέρας 15.724; ἐξ... τοι θεοὶ φρένας ὤλεσαν 7.360; φρένας ἄφρων, φρένας ἠλέ or ἠλεέ, 4.104, 15.128, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.243)]: of losing one's wits, φρενῶν ἀφεστάναι, ἐκστῆναι, μεθεστάναι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 865, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1021, “Ba.” 944; τὰς φ. ἐκβάλλειν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 648; ἔξω φρενῶν 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 7.47; φρενῶν οὐκ ἔνδον ὤν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 709; φρενῶν κεκομμένος 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 479 (Lyric poetry); κενός 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 754; τητώμενοι [prev. author] “El.” 1326)]; ἔξεδροι, παράκοποι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 935, “Ba.” 33; ποῦ ποτ᾽ εἶ φρενῶ; 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 390; φρένες διάστροφοι 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 673, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 447; μαργότης φρενῶν [prev. author] “fragment” 846; ἀνακίνησις φρενῶν [prev. author] “OT” 727, etc.)]; of persons in their senses, ἐπήβολος φρενῶν [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Ant.” 492; ἀνδρὸς νοῦν ἔχοντος καὶ φρένας 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 535 (Lyric poetry))] (so in later Prose, οἱ φρένας ἔχοντες [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ ποιημάτων” 5.19, “Rh.” 1.240S.; οἱ τῶν σοφιστῶν τὰς κοινὰς φ. ἔχοντες [prev. work]202S.); also ἔσω φρενῶν λέγειν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1052; γράφου φρενῶν ἔσω 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1325; τῆς λεπτότητος τῶν φ. 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 153)]; φρένες, opposed to σῶμα, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.134; so αἱ σάρκες αἱ κεναὶ φρενῶν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 387)]; attributed to animals, μετὰ φρεσὶ γίγνεται ἀλκή [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.245, compare 16.157, etc.)]—The word is not common in early Prose, τίς αὐτῶν νόος ἢ φρή; [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 104)]; συμφορὰ τῶν φ., i.e. madness, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 2.7; παραλλάττει τῶν φ. 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator “Fragmenta” 90; καρποῦ μὲν ἀφθονία φρενῶν δὲ ἀφορία 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 4.55; νοῦς καὶ φρένες 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.324, compare 25.33.)]
I.4 will, purpose, οὔ τι Διὸς βέομαι φρεσίν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.194; σῆς ἀπεστάτουν φ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 993, compare “OC” 1182)].—In usage there is little or no distinction observable between singular and plural, but the singular is not found in Prose (except [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus [same place]) or Comedy texts (except in _paratragoedia_, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 886).)]