βίος (bios)
Short definition (LSJ): bow, = τόξον, Il.1.49, Heraclit.48, etc. (Ambracian acc. to AB1095. Cf. Vedic jiyā´ 'bow- string', Lith. gijà 'thread'.)
Full entry: Lexicon.
251 occurrences of this form in 95 works (dictionary form exactly as written, accents ignored, v/u and j/i as single letters; inflected forms not included).
Works using this form
- Nicomachean Ethics
- Meditations
- Republic
- On the doctrine that Dreams are sent from God, Books 1-2
- Philebus
- The Six Enneads: Enneads III-IV
- On Abstinence from Animal Food
- The Six Enneads: Enneads I-II
- On the Life of Moses: Books 1-3
- Wisdom of Solomon
- Laws
- Discourses
- Hippolytus
- The Phoenician Women
- On the Allegories of the Sacred Laws
- Gorgias
- Memorabilia
- Sirach
- Wealth
- Helen
- The Suppliants
- Works and Days
- Life of Pythagoras
- On the Meeting for the sake of receiving Instructions
- On the Posterity of Cain
- Whether an Old Man Should Engage in Public Affairs
- Idylls
- Birds
- Library of History
- Alcestis
- Medea
- Histories (Books 3–9)
- Iliad
- Odyssey
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 16
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 4
- On Drunkenness
- On Fugitives
- On Rewards and Punishments
- On Three Virtues, that is to say, on Courage, Humanity, and Repentance
- On the Cherubim; and on the Flaming Sword; and on the First-Born Child of Man, Cain
- On the Contemplative Life, or on the Virtues of Suppliants
- On the Creation of the World
- On the Life of the Wise Man made perfect by Instruction; or, on the Unwritten Law, that is to say, on Abraham
- On the Migration of Abraham
- On the Principle that the Worse is accustomed to be always plotting against the Better
- On the Sacrifice of Abel and Cain
- On the question why certain Names in the Holy Scriptures are changed
- Apology
- Charmides
- The Six Enneads: Enneads V-VI
- How the Young Man Should Study Poetry
- On Stoic Self-Contradictions
- On Tranquillity of Mind
- On the Cleverness of Animals
- On the Education of Children
- Histories
- Electra
- Agamemnon
- 3 Maccabees
- 4 Maccabees
- Argonautica
- Clouds
- Ecclesiazusae
- Andromache
- Hecuba
- Iphigenia in Tauris
- The Bacchae
- Histories (Books 1–2)
- Panegyricus
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 1
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 17
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 18
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 5
- The Life of Josephus
- Against Flaccus
- On the Confusion of Languages
- On the Life of a Man occupied with Affairs of State; or, on Joseph
- On the Unchangeableness of God
- On the question, Who is the Heir of Divine Things
- Letters
- Phaedo
- Phaedrus
- Protagoras
- Statesman
- Against Epicurus: No Pleasant Life
- Isis and Osiris
- Letter to Marcella
- Ajax
- Antigone
- Oedipus at Colonus
- History of the Peloponnesian War
- Anabasis
- Cyropaedia
- Hellenica
Example passages
…οἱ ἀγωνιζόμενοι (τούτων γάρ τινες νικῶσιν), οὕτω καὶ τῶν ἐν τῷ βίῳ καλῶν κἀγαθῶν οἱ πράττοντες ὀρθῶς ἐπήβολοι γίνονται. ἔστι δὲ καὶ ὁ βίος αὐτῶν καθʼ αὑτὸν ἡδύς. τὸ μὲν γὰρ ἥδεσθαι τῶν ψυχικῶν, ἑκάστῳ δʼ ἐστὶν ἡδὺ πρὸς ὃ λέγεται φιλοτοιοῦτος, οἷον ἵππος μὲν τῷ φιλίππῳ, θέαμα…
…Ὕβριζε, ὕβριζε σεαυτήν, ὦ ψυχή· τοῦ δὲ τιμῆσαι σεαυτὴν οὐκέτι καιρὸν ἕξεις· εἷς γὰρ ὁ βίος ἑκάστῳ, οὗτος δέ σοι σχεδὸν διήνυσται, μὴ αἰδουμένῃ σεαυτήν, ἀλλ’ ἐν ταῖς ἄλλων ψυχαῖς τιθεμένῃ τὴν σὴν εὐμοιρίαν.…
……ἄκοντες ἐπιτηδεύουσιν ὡς ἀναγκαῖον ἀλλʼ οὐχ ὡς ἀγαθόν, τρίτον δὲ ὅτι εἰκότως αὐτὸ δρῶσι· πολὺ γὰρ ἀμείνων ἄρα ὁ τοῦ ἀδίκου ἢ ὁ τοῦ δικαίου βίος, ὡς λέγουσιν. ἐπεὶ ἔμοιγε, ὦ Σώκρατες, οὔ τι δοκεῖ οὕτως· ἀπορῶ μέντοι διατεθρυλημένος τὰ ὦτα ἀκούων Θρασυμάχου καὶ μυρίων ἄλλων, τὸν δὲ ὑπὲρ τῆς δικαιοσύνης λόγον, ὡς…