τόξον, τό,
bow, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.124, etc.: frequently in _plural_ τόξα for _sing._, τόξ᾽ ὤμοισιν ἔχων ἀμφηρεφέα τε φαρέτρην 1.45, +others, compare 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 3.101, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 654; sometimes in Prose, 1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 51, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.106, “PEleph.” 5.8 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐτιταίνετο.. τόξα drew the bow, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.97; also τόξον τιταίνει 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 9.43 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; τόξον ἕλκετ᾽ (variant{εἷλκεν}) [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.582; τόξου πῆχυν ἀνέλκειν 13.583 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; τόξον τείνειν, ἐντείνειν, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 364 (_anapaest meter_), “fragment” 83; τ... ἐντανύσαι 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 21.245, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.173; κυκλοτερὲς μέγα τ. ἔτεινε 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.124, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 1066 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; τόξου ῥῦμα (i.e. the Persians, the bow being an oriental weapon), opposed to λόγχης ἰσχύς (i.e. the Greeks), [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 147 (_anapaest meter_). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2 τόξῳ by guess, [[ [prev. author] “Ch.” 1033. ] Refs]
__3 bowmanship, archery, τόξων ἐῢ εἰδώς [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.718, +others; τόξοισιν πίσυνος 5.205, compare 13.716; ἡ τέχνη τῶν τ. 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.73; πρὸς τόξου κρίσιν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 266 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; τόξῳ (i.e. νικῶν) [[ “SIG” 1061.10 (Samos, 2nd c.BC). ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]