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Bion

[bahy-on]
noun
  1. flourished c100 b.c., Greek pastoral poet.
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Historical Examples of bion

  • That very day Bion and Nausicleides arrived laden with gifts for the army.

    Anabasis

    Xenophon

  • The bion is the physiological, as the morphon is the morphological, individual.

    Form and Function

    E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

  • Bion insisted on the principle that "The property of friends is common."

    Familiar Quotations

    John Bartlett

  • So that Bion did not see in what respect his comparison touched our subject.

  • One may do worse than compare it with the Syrian syncopation of and ' in Bion's Adonis.

    Instigations

    Ezra Pound