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βιοῦν (bioun)

βιοῦν is an Ancient Greek form of βιόω, meaning “live”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 87 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.8.103: ἐς Σκυθίην Ἀνάχαρσις ὅτʼ ἤλυθε, πολλὰ πλανηθεὶς πάντας ἔπειθε βιοῦν ἤθεσιν Ἑλλαδικοῖς. τὸν δʼ ἔτι μῦθον ἄκραντον ἐνὶ στομάτεσσιν ἔχοντα πτηνὸς ἐς ἀθανάτους ἥρπασεν ὦκα δόναξ. Οὗ …

All forms of βιόω (conjugation 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.