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βιωτός?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: biōtos

Principal Part: βιωτός

Etym.: βιόω

Sense

  1. to be lived, worth living

Examples

  • κατά με φόνιος Αἴ¨δας 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 ὀ`ν 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

Similar forms

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

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