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Morphology Lemmata τόξον (external link: τόξον )Forms: τόξ' (data provider: perseus), τόξα (data provider: perseus), τόξοιο (data provider: perseus), τόξοισ (data provider: perseus), τόξοισι (data provider: perseus), τόξοισιν (data provider: perseus), τόξοισί (data provider: donatus-sup), τόξοισίν (data provider: donatus-sup), τόξον (data provider: perseus), τόξου (data provider: perseus), τόξω (data provider: perseus), τόξωι (data provider: perseus), τόξων (data provider: perseus), τόξῳ (data provider: perseus)Dictionary Autenrieth: A Homeric lexicon τόξον τόξον (root τυκ, τυχεῖν ), pl. τόξα : bow , freq. the pl. for the sing., as the weapon was made of two horns joined by a centre-piece, see Il. 4.105-111. The bow was strung by slipping the loop at one end of the string (νευρή ) over the curved tip (κορώνη ) at the end of the bow, see cut No. 34. For the way of shooting, see cuts Nos. 63, 89, 90, 104; and for the bow - case, Nos. 24, 124. The archer was regarded as an inferior sort of warrior, Il. 11.385.—For the art, archery , Il. 2.718, cf. 827.Bonitz: Index Aristotelicus Liddell-Scott-Jones: A Greek-English lexicon τόξον τόξον , τό , bow, Il. 4.124, etc.: freq. in pl. τόξα for sg., τόξ' ὤμοισιν ἔχων ἀμφηρεφέα τε φαρέτρην 1.45 , al., cf. Pi. P. 3.101, S. Ph. 654; sts. in Prose, Heraclit. 51, Hdt. 2.106, PEleph. 5.8 (iii B. C.) ; ἐτιταίνετο ..τόξα drew the bow, Il. 5.97; also τόξον τιταίνει B. 9.43 ; τόξον ἕλκετ' (v.l. εἷλκεν ) Il. 11.582; τόξου πῆχυν ἀνέλκειν 13.583 ; τόξον τείνειν, ἐντείνειν, A. Ag. 364 (anap.), Fr. 83; τ ... ἐντανύσαι Od. 21.245 , cf. Hdt. 2.173; κυκλοτερὲς μέγα τ. ἔτεινε Il. 4.124 , cf. E. Ba. 1066; τόξου ῥῦμα (i.e. the Persians, the bow being an oriental weapon), opp. λόγχης ἰσχύσ (i.e. the Greeks), A. Pers. 147 (anap.).
2. τόξῳ by guess, Id. Ch. 1033 .
3. bowmanship, archery, τόξων ἐὺ̈ εἰδώσ Il. 2.718 , al.; τόξοισιν πίσυνοσ 5.205 , cf. 13.716; ἡ τέχνη τῶν τ. Hdt. 1.73 ; πρὸς τόξου κρίσιν S. Tr. 266 ; τόξῳ (sc. νικῶν ) SIG 1061.10 (Samos, ii B. C. ).
II. in pl. also, bow and arrows, τόξα πεπτεῶτ' ἄλλυδις ἄλλα Il. 21.502 , cf. Hdt. 3.78, S. Ph. 68, al.; sts. in pl. for the arrows only, ib.652, Pl. Lg. 815a.
III. metaph., τόξα ἡλίου its rays, E. HF 1090; ἀμπελίνοις τόξοις δαμέντες, of the effects of wine, Pi. Fr. 218; τόξον μερίμνησ Trag.Adesp. 354 ; κότταβος ..ὃν σκοπὸν ἐς λατάγων τόξα καθιστάμεθα for shooting of liquor from the cup, Critias 2.2.
IV. rainbow, Aeschrio 4, LXX Ge. 9.13, Hsch. s.v. εἴρη.
2. arch, AP 9.694.
3. curved support, cradle used in amputations, Archig. ap. Orib. 47.13.6; part of a carriage or cart, PPetr. 2p.133, 3p.144 (iii B. C.) .William J. Slater: Lexicon to Pindar
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