τοξότης, ου,
Doric dialect -τας, α, ὁ, bowman, archer, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.385, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 628, “IG” 12.929.67, 949.79, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.39, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.28, etc.; τοὺς τ. τούς τε ἀστοὺς καὶ τοὺς ξένους “IG” 12.79.3; ἀτράκτων τοξόται 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 312; τ. στρατός 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 13.89 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; as a device on Persian coins, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Agesilaus” 15, “Art.” 20. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__2 the Archer, Sagittarius, a sign in the Zodiac, [[ 4th c.BC: Eudoxus Astronomus cited in 2nd c.BC: Hipparchus Astronomicus 1.2.20, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “VH” 1.18, 1st c.BC: Ptolemaeus Epigrammaticus “Alm.” 8.1, Vett Val.11.3, “Supp.epigram” 7.363.3 (Dura-Europus, 2nd c.AD). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II at Athens, οἱ τοξόται were the city-police, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 54, 711 (troch.), “Eq.” 665, 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 3.5, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 319c, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 24.3; compare Σκύθης 11.1. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.b archer-cavalry, [[ 1st c.BC: Asclepiodotus Tacticus “Tact.” 1.3; compare Σκύθης 11.2. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]