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βίωσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: βίωσις

Structure: βιωσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: bio/w

Sense

  1. manner of life

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • "ἐπεὶ τῷ γε βουλομένῳ μὴ ἀγρίωσ οὕτω μηδ’ ἠλιθίωσ ἀλλὰ πραότερον συκοφαντεῖν, τὸ μετὰ ταῦτ’ ἐπὶ τοὐναντίον ἂν αἰτιάσασθαι παράσχοι, τοῦ Ἐμπεδοκλέουσ λέγοντοσ οὐκ ἂν ἀνὴρ τοιαῦτα σοφὸσ φρεσὶ μαντεύσαιτο, ὡσ ὄφρα μέν τε βιῶσι, τὸ δὴ βίοτον καλέουσι τόφρα μὲν οὖν εἰσιν καί σφιν πάρα δεινὰ καὶ ἐσθλά, πρὶν δὲ πάγεν τε βροτοὶ καὶ ἐπεὶ λύθεν, οὐδὲν ἄρ’ εἰσί ταῦτα γὰρ οὐκ ἀρνουμένου μὴ εἶναι τοὺσ γεγονότασ καὶ ζῶντάσ ἐστιν, εἶναι δὲ μᾶλλον οἰομένου καὶ τοὺσ μηδέπω γεγονότασ καὶ τοὺσ ἢδη τεθνηκότασ. (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 125)

Synonyms

  1. manner of life

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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