τοξ-ικός, ή, όν,
of or for the bow, τ. θῶμιγξ, ἄτρακτος, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 460, “fragment” 139 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; τ. στολή an archer's equipment, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 833b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τ. κάλαμος a kind of Cretan reed used for arrows, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 4.11.11. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2 ἡ τοξική (i.e. τέχνη) archery, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 197a, “La.” 193b, +others, “SIG” 1060.5 (Tralles, 4th-3rd c.BC). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 τὸ -κόν shot-hole, loophole, [[ LXX.Judg.5.28, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Symmachus LXX.Eze.40.16: so -κή (i.e. θυρίς) 3rd-2nd c.BC: Philo Mechanicus “(Belopoeica) Excerpte aus Philons Mechanik - Ath. Berl. Akad.” 81.25. ] LXX+3rd c.BC+]
__II of persons, skilled in the use of the bow, [Πάνδαρος] [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.405b; τοξικώτατοι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 6.2.4. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III τὸ -κόν, collectively, the bowmen, for οἱ τοξόται, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 462, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 36.47; πηλίκα τοξικὰ ἔχουσ; “Mim.Oxy.” 413.198. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III.2 τ. φάρμακον poison for smearing arrows with, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Mirabilia” 837a13, “BGU” 21 ii 14 (4th c.AD), 4th c.AD: Oribasius Medicus “fragment” 126: τὸ τ. 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 3.4.18, 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 1.106, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 9.15: _plural_, 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 2.79. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]