βροτός, ὁ,
poet. Noun, mortal man, opposed to ἀθάνατος or θεός, in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+] usually substantive, οἷοι νῦν βροτοί εἰσι [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.304, +others; βροτὸς εἰς θεόν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 1196 (Lyric poetry); λόγος τις Ζῆνα μιχθῆναι βροτῷ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 295; θεοῦ δὲ πληγὴν οὐχ ὑπερπηδᾷ βροτός 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 961 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; βροτοί,opposed to νεκροί, [[ [prev. author] “Ant.” 850 (Lyric poetry); but β. ἀνήρ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.361; and so β. ἔθνος 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 10.28: as _feminine_, β. αὐδήεσσα 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.334; β. οὖσαν “Anthologia Graeca” 9.89 (1st c.AD: Philippus Epigrammaticus)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; but βροταί· γυναῖκες, [[ 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus (assuming variant): frequently in _genitive_ _plural_, after πολλοί 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 1.42, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 981, etc.; after τίς [prev. work] 437, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; βροτοί never takes the Article in Trag. and Comedy texts, except when an adjective or pronoun is added, τῶν πολυπόνων β. [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 175 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡμεῖς οἱ β. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 601, “Pax” 849, compare 5th c.BC: Sannyrio Comicus 1 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἱ ταλαίπωροι β. [[ 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 66 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; οἱ πάντες β. [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 538.8.—Rare in Prose, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 566d, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Topica” 133a31, 149a7. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II of the dead, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 129 (variant{νεκροῖς} Scholia). (From Μροτός (compare ἄ-μβροτος, μορτός)] Refs 4th c.BC+], Sanskrit mṛtás 'dead', Latin morior, etc.)