βέλος, εος, τό,
missile, especially arrow, dart, frequently in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of the piece of rock hurled by the Cyclops, τόντονδε βαλὼν β. [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.495 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of an ox's leg thrown by one of the suitors at Ulysses, [[ 20.305 ] Refs]; of a stool, [[ 17.464 ] Refs]; ὑπὲκ βελέων out of the reach of darts, out of shot, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.465; ἐκ βελέων 11.163; ἔξω βελῶν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.3.69, etc.; ἔξω βέλους 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Anabasis” 2.27.1, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Hist.Conscr.” 4 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; opposed to ἐντὸς βέλους, [[ 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 20.6, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Anabasis” 1.2.5; εἴσω β. παρελθεῖν [prev. work] 1.6.8. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__2 used of any weapon, as a sword, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 345, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 658 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; an axe, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 1159 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; the sting of a scorpion, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 169 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of the gad-fly, [[ [prev. author] “Supp.” 556. ] Refs]
__3 ἀγανὰ βέλεα of Apollo, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.759, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.280, and of Artemis,[prev. work] 5.124 ] Refs 8th c.BC+], denote sudden, easy death of men and women respectively; βέλος ὀξύ, of Ilithyia, pangs of childbirth, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.269, compare 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 27.29. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]