τόξον: Difference between revisions

|Definition=τό, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[bow]], <span class="bibl">Il.4.124</span>, etc.: freq. in plural [[τόξα]] for sg., τόξ' ὤμοισιν ἔχων ἀμφηρεφέα τε φαρέτρην <span class="bibl">1.45</span>, al., cf. <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">P.</span>3.101</span>, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ph.</span>654</span>; sometimes in Prose, <span class="bibl">Heraclit. 51</span>, <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.106</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PEleph.</span>5.8</span> (iii B. C.); <b class="b3">ἐτιταίνετο . . τόξα</b> drew the [[bow]], <span class="bibl">Il.5.97</span>; also τόξον τιταίνει <span class="bibl">B.9.43</span>; <b class="b3">τόξον ἕλκετ'</b> ([[varia lectio|v.l.]] [[εἷλκεν]]) <span class="bibl">Il.11.582</span>; τόξου πῆχυν ἀνέλκειν <span class="bibl">13.583</span>; <b class="b3">τόξον τείνειν, τόξον ἐντείνειν</b>, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ag.</span>364</span> (anap.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Fr.</span>83</span>; τ… ἐντανύσαι <span class="bibl">Od.21.245</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.173</span>; κυκλοτερὲς μέγα τ. ἔτεινε <span class="bibl">Il.4.124</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Ba.</span>1066</span>; <b class="b3">τόξου ῥῦμα</b> (i.e. the Persians, the bow being an oriental weapon), opp. <b class="b3">λόγχης ἰσχύς</b> (i.e. the Greeks), <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pers.</span>147</span> (anap.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[τόξῳ]] = [[by guess]], <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ch.</span>1033</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> [[bowmanship]], [[archery]], τόξων ἐῢ εἰδώς <span class="bibl">Il.2.718</span>, al.; τόξοισιν πίσυνος <span class="bibl">5.205</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">13.716</span>; ἡ τέχνη τῶν τ. <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.73</span>; πρὸς τόξου κρίσιν <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Tr.</span>266</span>; [[τόξῳ]] (sc. [[νικῶν]]) <span class="title">SIG</span>1061.10 (Samos, ii B. C.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> in plural also, [[bow and arrows]], τόξα πεπτεῶτ' ἄλλυδις ἄλλα <span class="bibl">Il.21.502</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Hdt.3.78</span>, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ph.</span>68</span>, al.; sometimes in plural for [[the arrows]] only, ib.<span class="bibl">652</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>815a</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> metaph., <b class="b3">τόξα ἡλίου</b> [[sun]] [[ray]]s, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">HF</span> 1090</span>; <b class="b3">ἀμπελίνοις τόξοις δαμέντες</b>, of the effects of wine, <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">Fr.</span>218</span>; τόξον μερίμνης <span class="title">Trag.Adesp.</span>354; <b class="b3">κότταβος . . ὃν σκοπὸν ἐς λατάγων τόξα καθιστάμεθα</b> for [[shooting]] of [[liquor]] from the [[cup]], <span class="bibl">Critias 2.2</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">IV</span> [[rainbow]], <span class="bibl">Aeschrio 4</span>, <span class="bibl">LXX<span class="title">Ge.</span>9.13</span>, Hsch. [[sub verbo|s.v.]] [[εἴρη]]. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[arch]], AP9.694. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> [[curved support]], [[cradle]] used in [[amputation]]s, Archig. ap. <span class="bibl">Orib.47.13.6</span>; part of a carriage or cart, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PPetr.</span>2p.133</span>, <span class="bibl">3p.144</span> (iii B. C.).</span>