Bion
[ bahy-on ]
noun
flourished c100 b.c., Greek pastoral poet.
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He had an uncle, the Abbe Gaubert, cur of Bion to whose generous interest the future politician owed his first advances in life.
The War Upon Religion | Rev. Francis A. CunninghamThe generative cycle proceeds from ovum to ovum in one and the same Bion or physiological individual.
The Wonders of Life | Ernst HaeckelYe delight in the ode: one man is pleased with iambics; another with satires written in the manner of Bion, and virulent wit.
The Works of Horace | HoraceThe statement of Moschus that Bion was poisoned by certain enemies appears to be intended as an assertion of actual fact.
Adonais | ShelleySee the passage from Bion (p. 64), 'One in a golden vessel bears water, and another laves the wound.'
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