βίου (biou)

βίου is an Ancient Greek form of βίος, meaning “life, livelihood”. It is the genitive singular masculine noun.

Found 1,409 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.5.1: … σθενέσι τροφῆς, καὶ προσπίπτοντες πόλεσιν ἀτειχίστοις καὶ κατὰ κώμας οἰκουμέναις ἥρπαζον καὶ τὸν πλεῖστον τοῦ βίου ἐντεῦθεν ἐποιοῦντο, οὐκ ἔχοντός πω αἰσχύνην τούτου τοῦ ἔργου, φέροντος δέ τι καὶ δόξης μᾶλλον·

Lucian of Samosata, Dialogi mortuorum 22.8: … τῶν νεογνῶν τούτων καὶ νηπίων. ἀλλὰ καὶ οἱ πάνυ γέροντες ὀδύρονται. τί τοῦτο; ἆρα τὸ φίλτρον αὐτοὺς ἔχει τοῦ βίοῦ;

Babrius, Fables 22.1: Βίου τις ἤδη τὴν μέσην ἔχων ὥρην

All forms of βίος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.