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βίος[ῐ], ὁ,
life, i. e. not animal life (ζωή), but mode of life [[compare (εἰ χρόνον τις λέγοι ψυχῆς ἐν κινήσει μετα βατικῇ ἐξ ἄλλου εἰς ἄλλον βίον ζωὴν εἶναι 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 3.7.11)] Refs 3rd c.AD+], manner of living (mostly therefore of men, see [[ 5th c.AD(?): Ammonius Epigrammaticus p.32 V.] Refs 5th c.AD+]; but also of animals, διεχώριζον ζῴων τε βίον δένδρων τε φύσιν [[ 4th c.BC: Epicrates Comicus 11.14, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 3.11.6, etc.; also ζῆν φυτοῦ βίον 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Generatione Animalium” 736b13); ζώεις δ᾽ ἀγαθὸν βίον 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.491; ἐμὸν βίον ἀμφιπολεύειν 18.254; αἰῶνα βίοιο 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Fragmenta” 161; τὸν μακρὸν τείνειν βίον 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 537 (Lyric poetry); ὁ καθ᾽ ἡμέραν β. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1364; βίον διαγαγεῖν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 439; τελεῖν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1114; διατελεῖν 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 6.45 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; διέρχεσθαι βίου τέλος uncertain in [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 4(3).5; τελευτᾶν 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.84; ὑπ᾽ ἄλλου τελευτῆσαι β. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 870e; ἐπειδὰν τοῦ ἀνθρωπίνου βίου τελευτήσω 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.7.17; τέρμα βίου περᾶν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1530; ὁδὸς βίου 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 1.5, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.1.21; διὰ βίου 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1272a37 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; proverbial, ὁ ἐπὶ Κρόνου βίος 'the Golden Age', [[ [prev. author] “Ath.” 16.7; so Ταρτησσοῦ β. 4th c.AD: Himerius Sophista “Eclogae” 10.11; β. ζωῆς 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Epinomis” 982a (compare βιοτή); ζῆν θαλάττιον β. 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 100; ἀμέριμνον ζῆν β. 4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 92.8; λαγὼ β. ζῆν δεδιὼς καὶ τρέμων 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.263; σκληρὸς τῷ β. 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Γεωργός” 66 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: rarely in plural, [[ 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 116.6 and 11, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 855 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; τίνες καὶ πόσοι εἰσὶ β.; [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 733d, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1095b15, “Pol.” 1256a20. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 in Poets sometimes ={ζωή}, βίον ἐκπνέων [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1517 (Lyric poetry); ἀποψύχειν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1031; φείδεσθαι βίου [prev. author] “Ph.” 749; νοσφίζειν τινὰ βίου [prev. work] 1427, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 lifetime, ἐς τὸν ἅπαντα ἀνθρώπων β. [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.109; τῶν ἐπὶ τοῦ σοῦ β. γεγονότων λόγων 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 242a, compare “PMagd.” 18.7 (3rd c.BC), etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II livelihood, means of living (in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus βίοτος), βίος ἐπηετανός 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 31, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 6.10 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; τὸν βίον κτᾶσθαι, ποιεῖσθαι, ἔχειν ἀπό τινος, to make one's living off, to live by a thing, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.106, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.5, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 6.11; ἀπεστέρηκας τὸν βίον τὰ τόξ᾽ ἑλών 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 931, compare 933, 1282; κτᾶσθαι πλοῦτον καὶ βίον τέκνοις 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 450; πλείον᾽ ἐκμοχθεῖν β. [prev. work] 451 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; β. πολύς[[ [prev. work] 861; ὀλίγος 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 751; βίον κεκτημένος 4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 99.4 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὁ ῐδιος β. private property, [[ “AJA” 17.29 (1st c.BC),compare “SIG” 762.40, 4th c.AD: Iamblichus Philosophus “de vita Pythagorica” 30.170 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]; β. Δημήτριος, = corn, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 44. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__III the world we live in, 'the world', οἱ ἀπὸ τοῦ β., opposed to the philosophers, [[ 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 11.49; simply ὁ βίος [prev. author] “P.” 1.211 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; ὁ β. ὁ κοινός[[ [prev. work] 237; μυθικὰς ὑποθέσεις ὧν μεστὸς ὁ β. ἐστί 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.226 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; ἐκκαθαίρειν τὸν β., of Hercules, [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “DDeor.” 13.1; τὸν βίον μιμούμενοι, of comic poets, Scholia Heph. p.115C. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; also, 'the public', ἵνα ὁ β. εἰδῇ τίνα δεῖ μετακαλεῖσθαι [[ 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.4. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__IV settled life, almost, = abode, ἐν τῇ Θρᾳκίᾳ νήσῳ βίους ἱδρύσαντο [[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 1.68, compare 72. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__V a life, biography, as those of [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus, “Thes.” 1, compare 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 2.180. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__VI caste, διεῖλε τὸ πλῆθος εἰς τέτταρας β. [[ 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 8.7.1. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__VII wine made from partly dried unripe grapes, [[ 1st c.AD: Plinius Rerum Naturalium Scriptor “Historia Naturalis” 14.77. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__VIII Astrology texts, the second region, [[ 4th c.AD: Paulus Alexandrinus Astrologus “L.” 2.] Refs 4th c.AD+] (Cf. Sanskrit jīv´s 'alive', j[imacracute]vati 'live', Latin uīvus, etc.)
