Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

βιωτός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: βιωτός

Etym.: bio/w

Sense

  1. to be lived, worth living

Examples

  • κατά με φόνιοσ Αἴ̈δασ ἕλοι πατρὶ ξυνθανεῖν γεραιῷ τάλαιναν, ὡσ ἔμοιγ’ ὁ μέλλων βίοσ οὐ βιωτόσ. (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, choral, strophe 111)
  • ἐάντ’ αὖ λέγω ὅτι καὶ τυγχάνει μέγιστον ἀγαθὸν ὂν ἀνθρώπῳ τοῦτο, ἑκάστησ ἡμέρασ περὶ ἀρετῆσ τοὺσ λόγουσ ποιεῖσθαι καὶ τῶν ἄλλων περὶ ὧν ὑμεῖσ ἐμοῦ ἀκούετε διαλεγομένου καὶ ἐμαυτὸν καὶ ἄλλουσ ἐξετάζοντοσ, ὁ δὲ ἀνεξέταστοσ βίοσ οὐ βιωτὸσ ἀνθρώπῳ, ταῦτα δ’ ἔτι ἧττον πείσεσθέ μοι λέγοντι. (Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, 196:1)

Synonyms

  1. to be lived

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

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