ζωτικός

A. fit for giving or maintaining life, ἐπιθυμία Pl. Ti. 91b; δυνάμιες Ti.Locr. 100d, cf. D.S. 2.51(Sup.), Gal. 15.506; πνεῦμα LXX Wi. 15.11; ἰκμάς Corn. ND 2; φῶς Porph. Marc. 13; τὸ ὑγρὸν ‐ώτερον τοῦ ξηροῦ Arist. GA 761a27, cf. 733a11; [ἔαρ] ‐ωτάτη ὥρα Thphr. CP 1.13.4.

II. full of life, alive, Pl. R. 610e, Thphr. HP 1.14.2, Porph. Gaur. 16.3,5; τὰ τήθυα ζωτικώτερα τῶν σπόγγων more like animals, Arist. PA 681a10; τὰ ‐ώτατα μέρη (of the body) Plu. 2.130b. Adv. ‐κῶς, ἔχειν to be fond of life, Id. Cat.Mi. 70.

2. characteristic of life, vital, τὸ αὐτὰ ὑφ’ αὑτῶν κινεῖσθαι ζωτικόν Arist. Ph. 255a6; τόνος, πνεῦμα, φύσις, Stoic. 2.235, 241,272; κίνησις Herm. ap.Stob. 1.41.7, cf. Plot. 6.7.5(Comp.), Porph. Sent. 37; κατὰ τὸ ζ. Procl. Inst. 189. Adv. ‐κῶς ib.39, Dam. Pr. 79, Herm. ap. Stob.l.c.

3. ζ. χρόνος duration of life, Vett.Val. 132.4; of works of Art, true to life, τὸ ζ. φαίνεσθαι πῶς ἐνεργάζῃ τοῖς ἀνδριᾶσιν; X. Mem. 3.10.6; ‐ώτατα ἐξεργάσασθαι Plu. 2.668d.