βέλος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=εος, τό,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[missile]], esp. [[arrow]], [[dart]], freq. in Hom.; of the piece of [[rock]] [[hurl]]ed by the [[Cyclops]], τόντονδε βαλὼν β. Od.9.495; of an ox's leg [[thrown]] by one of the [[suitor]]s at [[Ulysses]], 20.305; of a stool, 17.464; <b class="b3">ὑπὲκ βελέων</b> [[out of the reach of darts]], [[out of shot]], Il.4.465; ἐκ βελέων 11.163; ἔξω βελῶν [[Xenophon|X.]]''[[Cyropaedia|Cyr.]]''3.3.69, etc.; ἔξω βέλους Arr.''An.'' 2.27.1, Luc.''Hist.Conscr.''4; opp. <b class="b3">ἐντὸς βέλους</b>, D.S.20.6, Arr.''An.'' 1.2.5; εἴσω βέλους [[παρελθεῖν]] ib.1.6.8.<br><span class="bld">2</span> used of any [[weapon]], as a [[sword]], [[Aristophanes|Ar.]]''[[Acharnians|Ach.]]''345, cf. [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Ajax|Aj.]]''658; an [[axe]], E.''El.''1159; the [[sting]] of a [[scorpion]], A.''Fr.''169; of the [[gadfly|gad-fly]], Id.''Supp.''556.<br><span class="bld">3</span> <b class="b3">ἀγανὰ βέλεα</b> of [[Apollo]], Il.24.759, Od.3.280, and of Artemis, ib.5.124, denote [[sudden]], [[easy]] [[death]] of men and women respectively; <b class="b3">βέλος ὀξύ</b>, of [[Ilithyia]], [[pang]]s of [[childbirth]], Il.11.269, cf. Theoc.27.29.<br><span class="bld">4</span> after Hom. of anything [[swift-darting]], <b class="b3">Διὸς βέλη</b> the [[bolt]]s of [[Zeus]], [[lightning]]s, Pi.''N.''10.8, cf. [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]4.79, etc.; Ζηνὸς ἄγρυπνον βέλος A.''Pr.''360; <b class="b3">πύρπνουν βέλος</b> ib.917; <b class="b3">βέλεσι πυρπνόου ζάλης</b>, of a [[storm]], ib.373; πάγων δύσομβρα β. S.''Ant.''358: metaph., <b class="b3">ὀμμάτων βέλος</b> = [[glance]] of the [[eye]], A.''Ag.'' 742; [[φίλοικτος|φίλοικτον]] βέλος = a [[piteous]] [[glance]], ib. 241 (lyr.); <b class="b3">ἱμέρου βέλος</b> = the [[shaft]] of [[love]], Id.''Pr.''649; θυμοῦ βέλη [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Oedipus Tyrannus|OT]]''893 ([[si vera lectio|s.v.l.]]); of [[argument]]s, πᾶν τετόξευται β. A.''Eu.''679, cf. [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Philebus|Phlb.]]'' 23b; <b class="b3">β. τὰ ἀπὸ τοῦ στόματος</b>, of [[invective]], Lib.''Or.''51.8; of [[mental anguish]] or [[fear]], [[ἄτλατος|ἄτλατον]] βέλος Pi.''N.'' 1.48 ([[varia lectio|v.l.]] [[δέος]]) ὁ [[φθόνος]] αὐτὸς ἑαυτὸν ἑοῖς βελέεσσι δαμάζει ''AP''10.111.<br><span class="bld">5</span> [[engine of war]], Ph.''Bel.''82.8: pl., [[artillery]], ib.97.10. (Cf. [[βάλλω]], Lith. gélti 'sting', gēla 'sharp pain', OHG. quelan 'feel sharp pain'. Root gu̯el- 'pierce', cf. [[δέλλιθες]].)