The corpus record

ἰο-βόλος

iobolos

shooting arrows

Generated live from the audited corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Sapientia Salomonis 1 · 1.45/10k
Enneads 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

ἰο-βόλος · io-bolos — LSJ

shooting arrows

shooting arrows, τόξον AP 6.34 (Rhian.).

II shedding venom, venomous, venomous animals

shedding venom, venomous, of animals, Numen. ap. Ath. 7.304f, Hdn. 3.9.5: Sup., J. AJ 17.5.5; ἰοβόλα, τά, venomous animals, Arist. HA 607a28; περὶ ἰοβόλων ζῴων, title of work by Philumenus; τὰ τῶν ἰ. ἄκη Philostr. VA 3.44.

2 poisoned

of arrows, poisoned, Orph. H. 12.16; αἷμα AP 11.237 (Demod.): metaph., ἰ. γένυες, of Momus, APl. 16.266.2.

In the wild

ἰοβόλων · iobolōn Plotinus, Enneads 2.3 (DIORISIS sentence 853)
ἰοβόλων · iobolōn Septuaginta, Sapientia Salomonis 16

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

Ask the librarian

Ask about ἰο-βόλος →