μακρό-βῐος, ον,
(βίος) long-lived, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Aër.” 4, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1361b33, 2nd c.AD: Apollodorus Damascenus Mechanicus 2.1.5 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of plants, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 4.13.1 (hence μακρόβιον, τό, -a)ei/zwon to\ mikro/n ] Refs 4th c.BC+] probably conjecture in Ps.-[[ 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 4.89)] Refs 1st c.AD+]: comparative -ώτερος [[ 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 15.1.34, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Indica” 9.4 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]: superlative -ώτατος [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.114, 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 15.1.43 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Αἰθίοπες οἱ μ., of a halfmythical, perhaps Abyssinian, people, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.23, 5th-6th c.AD: Orphica “Argonautica” 1107 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; αἱ M., nymphsat Rhodes, [[ 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus ] Refs 5th c.AD+]
__II (βιός) with a long bow, gloss on{ἄβιος}, [[ “Etymologicum Magnum” 3.23. ] Refs]