Bion

He had an uncle, the Abbe Gaubert, cur of Bion to whose generous interest the future politician owed his first advances in life.

The generative cycle proceeds from ovum to ovum in one and the same bion or physiological individual.

Ye delight in the ode: one man is pleased with iambics; another with satires written in the manner of Bion, and virulent wit.

The statement of Moschus that Bion was poisoned by certain enemies appears to be intended as an assertion of actual fact.

See the passage from Bion (p. 64), 'One in a golden vessel bears water, and another laves the wound.'