βῐοτ-ή, ἡ,
={βίοτος},{βίος}, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.565, 6th c.BC: Phocylides Lyricus 10; ἑκατονταετὴς β. 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.282: Trag. in Lyric poetry, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 853, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 690, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 785 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; rare in Prose, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.47, 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 200, 297, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.2.27, Acl. “NA” 2.23: _metaphorically_ of foods, τὰ ἀσθενέστερα σιτία ὀλιγοχρόνιον β. ἔχει 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 6.5.14. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II living, sustenance, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 164, 1159, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1452 (Lyric poetry). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]