πετροβόλ-ος
(paroxytone), ον, throwing stones, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.4.12. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II substantive πετροβόλος, ὁ, engine for throwing stones, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.4.6, LXX.Job.41.19, 2nd c.BC: Athenaeus Mechanicus 34.2, etc.] LXX+2nd c.BC+]; distinguished from καταπέλτης, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 8.7.2 (but καταπέλτας ὀξυβελεῖς τε καὶ πετροβόλους 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 18.51, compare “IG” 22.468.1): _neuter_ πετροβόλα (i.e. ὄργανα), opposed to δορυβόλα, 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 9.10.3. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__II.2 sling, variant in [[ LXX.1Ki.14.14. ] LXX]
__III λίθοι πετρόβολοι hurled as from a sling, of hailstones,[[LXX.Eze.13.11, 13. ] LXX]