- ζωή
- ζωή ( [full] ζωιή (prob. an error) SIG577.34 (Milet., iii/ii B.C.)), [dialect] Dor. [full] ζωά: [dialect] Ion. and poet. [full] ζόη, Hdt.1.32, Herod.10.4, S.Fr.556, etc. (v. infr.), cf. IG9(1).86 ([place name] Hyampolis), [dialect] Dor. [full] ζόα: [dialect] Aeol. [full] ζοΐα Theoc. 29.5: ἡ:—A living, i.e. one's substance, property,
ἦ γάρ οἱ ζ. γ' ἦν ἄσπετος Od.14.96
; τοὶ δὲ ζωὴν ἐδάσαντο ib.208;κατὰ ζωὴν φαγέειν 16.429
; τὴν ζόην ποιέεσθαι or καταστήσασθαι ἀπὸ or ἐκ . . to get one's living by . . , Hdt.8.105, cf. 2.36, Arist.HA608b21;ἐξ ἁλός Theoc.Beren. 2
.2 after Hom., life, existence, opp. death, Tyrt.15.5, Pi.N.8.36, etc.; θανάτου πέρι καὶ ζωᾶς ib.9.29;οὐδὲν γὰρ ἄλγος οἷον ἡ πολλὴ ζόη S.Fr.556
; ζόας (ζωᾶς codd.)βιοτά E.HF664
(lyr.);τοῦ βίου ζωή Pl. Ti.44c
;ὁ τῆς ζ. χρόνος SIG1210
([place name] Calymna), etc.: as a term of affection, ζωή mylife! Juv.6.195: pl.,ζόαι A.Fr.99.13
;ζωαί LXXPs.62(63).3(4)
; μετὰ τὴν μίαν ζ. πολλαὶ ζ. Dam.Pr.100;αἱ τῆς ψυχῆς ζ. καὶ δυνάμεις Iamb.Comm.Math.3
.3 way of life,ζόην ἔζωον τὴν αὐτήν Hdt. 4.112
, cf. 114.II ζωή,=γραῦς 11
, the scum on milk, Eust.906.52; ζόη· τὸ ἐπάνω τοῦ μέλιτος, Hsch. [The form ζόη (paroxyt.) is required by the metre in trimeters in S.Fr.556, E.Hec.1108, and in lyrics S. Fr.592, E.Med.976, al., ζωή never: ζόη in other Poets, Call.Fr.114, Theoc.Ep.18.9, Herod.10.4.] (For the root, cf. ζῶ: fancifully connected with ζέω and ζητέω, Dam.Pr.81: in signf. 11 ζόη prob. fr. ζέω.)
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