τοξ-εύω,
shoot with the bow, τινος at a mark, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.855; πάντες, ὥστε τοξόται σκοποῦ, τοξεύετ᾽ ἀνδρὸς τοῦδε 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1034; also τ. ἐπὶ σκοποῦ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sisyphus” 391a; ἐς ἀλλήλους 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.214, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.3.66; κατά τινων 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Pisc.” 7 (_metaphorically_)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐς χωρίον, ἐς τὰ γυμνά, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.128, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.23; ἐπ᾽ ἐκεῖνο 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Cal.” 15 (_metaphorically_); πρὸς τὸν οὐρανόν 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.94: _metaphorically_, τοξεύσασα τῆς εὐδοξίας 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 643, compare “Ion” 1411 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: absolutely, use the bow, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.136; τὸν παῖδα τοξεύσας ἀπολωλέκεε ] Refs 5th c.BC+]by an arrow, [[ [prev. author] 3.74, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1187, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.48, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; καθ᾽ ὑπερβολὰν τοξεύσας having shot too high, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1197 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; εὔστοχα or ἄσκοπα τ. with good or no aim, [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Nigr.” 36, “Tox.” 62. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II with accusative objecti, shoot or hit with an arrow, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.2.12; θηρίον [prev. author] “Cyr.” 1.2.10; ἔλαφον 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Mirabilia” 837a15 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, to be struck by an arrow, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.98, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.8.20, 4.1.18, 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 3.32. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]