Bion
Bĭōn (in the class. per. perh. more correctly Bio, analog. to Plato, Meno, Dio, etc.), ōnis, m., = Βίων ὁ Βορυσθενίτης, Strab.),
- a very witty philosopher of the Cyrenaic school, born at Borysthenes: facetum illud Bionis, Cic. Tusc. 3, 26, 62.
- —Hence, Bĭōnēus, a, um, adj., Bionian, for witty, satirical, biting: hic delectatur iambis, Ille Bioneis sermonibus et sale nigro, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 60 Orell. ad loc. (Bioneis sermonibus, lividis jocis, id est, satira, Acro).—
- II Bion Soleus or Soleusis, a writer on agriculture, Varr. R. R. 1, 1, 8; Plin. 6, 29, 35, § 178.
Biōn, ōnis, m. (Βίων), I) (ὁ Βορυσθενίτης, am Borysthenes geboren) ein Schüler des Theophrast, Anhänger der cyrenaischen u. später der zynischen Schule (um 300 v. Chr.), ein bissiger Satiriker, dah. Muster Lucians, Cic. Tusc. 3, 62; vgl. Orelli Hor. ep. 2, 2, 60. – Dav. Biōnēus, a, um, bionëisch = bissig, sermones, Hor. ep. 2, 2, 60. – II) B. Soleus od. Solensis, ein Schriftsteller über Landbau, Varr. r. r. 1, 1, 8. Plin. 1. ind. lib. 8. Plin. 6, 179 D.
Bĭōn (14) ( Bĭō ), ōnis, m. (Βίων), ¶ 1 philosophe satirique : Cic. Tusc. 3, 62 || -ōnēus, a, um, de Bion [spirituel, satirique, mordant] : Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 60 ¶ 2 Bion de Soles [agronome] : Varro R. 1, 1, 8.
- 1. aanhanger v.d. cynische filosofische school, scherp satiricus, 3e eeuw v. Chr.; — adj. Biōnēus, a, um (Hor.) = scherp [sermones];
- 2. dichter v. bucolische poëzie uit Smyrna in Klein-Azië, eind 2e eeuw v. Chr.
Bion
(Βίων). (1) A Greek bucolic poet, who flourished in the second half of the second century B.C. He lived mostly in Sicily, where he is said to have died by poison. Besides a number of minor poems from his hand, we have a long descriptive epic called The Dirge of Adonis. His style is more remarkable for grace than for power or simplicity.
(2) A native of Borysthenes, near the mouth of the Dnieper, who flourished about B.C. 250. Sold as a slave when a boy, he was freed by his master, who was a rhetorician. After studying at Athens, he lived for a considerable period at the court of Antigonus Gonatas in Macedonia. His sharp, incisive sayings were proverbial in antiquity, as in the passage of Horace (Epist. ii. 2, 60).