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βιόω

bioo

live, pass oneʼs life

Appears 34 times across Plato's dialogues.

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βιόω, βιοῖ Arist. HA 558a20; βιοῦσι Democr. 200, Arist. HA 576b2; βιοῦν E. Fr. 238, etc.; part. βιοῦντες Arist. HA 566b24; subj. βιῶσι Emp. 15.2: impf. ἐβίουν Hp. Epid. 5.48: fut. βιώσομαι E. Alc. 784, Ar. Eq. 699, Pl. R. 344e, Men. Pk. 399; later βιώσω Id. Mon. 270, App. BC 4.119: aor. 1 ἐβίωσα Hdt. 1.163, Pl. Phd. 113d, X. Oec. 4.18, Arist. HA 585a21; but in earlier writers aor. 2 is more used, ἐβίων Isoc. 9.71, Is. 3.1 codd.; 3sg. imper. βιώτω Il. 8.429; subj. βιῶ Pl. Lg. 872c; opt. βιῴην Id. Ti. 89c, v.l. for βιοίη in Id. Grg. 512c; inf. βιῶναι Il. 10.174, Aeschin. 3.174, etc.; part. βιούς Hdt. 9.10, Th. 2.53, al.: pf. βεβίωκα Isoc. 15.27 and 28, Pl. Phd. 113d, etc.:—Med., βιόομαι Hdt. 2.177, Arist. EN 1180a17: for aor. Med. v. βιώσκομαι:— Pass., fut. βιωθήσομαι M.Ant. 9.30: pf. βεβίωμαι (v. infr.).—In early writers pres. and impf. are mostly supplied by ζάω: Hom. has only aor. 2:—Α. live, pass oneʼs life (opp. ζάω, live, exist), βέλτερον ἢ ἀπολέσθαι ἕνα χρόνον ἠὲ βιῶναι Il. 15.511, cf. 10.174; ἄλλος μὲν ἀποφθίσθω, ἄλλος δὲ βιώτω 8.429; βίον βιοῦν Pl. La. 188a, etc.; β. παρανόμως, μετρίως, ἐνδόξως, D. 22.24, Lys. 16.3, Plu. 2.145f: with neut. Pron., ἀπʼ αὐτῶν ὧ αὐτὸς βεβίωκεν ἄρξομαι . . from the very actions of his own life, D. 18.130:—Pass., τὰ σοὶ κἀμοὶ βεβιωμένα the actions of our life, ib.265, cf. Isoc. 15.7, Lys. 16.1; τὰ πεπραγμένα καὶ βεβ. D. 22.53; τοιούτων ὄντων ἃ τῷ βδελυρῷ τούτῳ . . βεβίωται Id. 21.151; ἐπιτηδευμάτων οἷα τούτῳ βεβίωται Id. 22.78; ὅ γε βεβιωμένος [βίος] Id. 19.200; impers., βεβίωταί [μοι] I have lived, Lat. vixi, Cic. Att. 12.2.2, 14.21.3: —Med. in act. sense, Hdt. 2.177, Arist. EN 1180a17. 2. survive, ἐβίω καυθείς Hp. Epid. 5.16.—βιόμεσθα (as if from βίομαι) is found h.Ap. 528 and 3pl. βίονται Orac. ap. Phleg. Mir. 2, cf. βέομαι.
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