ζωός
Ubi idem et maximus et honestissimus amor est, aliquando praestat morte jungi, quam vita distrahi → Where indeed the greatest and most honourable love exists, it is much better to be joined by death, than separated by life.
English (LSJ)
(without ι, cf. Schwyzer 436.2 (Crimisa, v/iv B.C.), Cret. δωός Leg.Gort.3.41, Cypr. pr. n.
A Ζωϝόθεμις Schwyzer684 (v B.C.)), ή, όν, (ζῶ) alive, living, Pi.P.4.209, Hdt.2.70, etc.; οὐ . . ζωοῦ οὐδὲ θανόντος Od.17.115; ζωὸν ἑλεῖν τινα to take prisoner, Il.6.38; ζωὸν λαβεῖν X. HG1.2.5; cf. ζωγρέω: metaph., ζωὸν δὲ φθιμένων . . κλέος A.Eleg.3. —Also ζώς Il.5.887, 16.445, Hdt.1.194, JRS15.145,148 (Cotiaeum) (ζῶς Ptol.Ascal., ζώς Hdn.Gr.2.53; on the other cases, ib.712); ζοός Archil.63, Epich.189, Berl.Sitzb.1927.161 (Cyrene), Theoc.2.5 (ζόος in Epich. l.c., Hdn.Gr.2.947).
