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τοξεύω

toxeuo

shoot with the bow

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Where it lives

Apollodorus Against Callipus 1 · 4.78/10k
Anabasis 17 · 3.02/10k
Trojan Women 2 · 2.83/10k
Third Philippic 1 · 2.35/10k
Alcibiades 2 1 · 2.34/10k
Cyropaedia 17 · 2.16/10k
Suppliant Maidens 1 · 2.07/10k
Eumenides 1 · 1.91/10k
Regnorum II 3 · 1.85/10k
Regnorum IV 3 · 1.73/10k
Hecuba 1 · 1.4/10k
Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k

Densest 12 of 26 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

τοξ-εύω · tox-euō — LSJ

shoot with the bow, at, use the bow, by an arrow, having shot

shoot with the bow, τινος at a mark, Il. 23.855; πάντες, ὥστε τοξόται σκοποῦ, τοξεύετʼ ἀνδρὸς τοῦδε S. Ant. 1034; also τ. ἐπὶ σκοποῦ Pl. Sis. 391a; ἐς ἀλλήλους Hdt. 1.214, cf. X. Cyr. 3.3.66; κατά τινων Luc. Pisc. 7 (metaph.); ἐς χωρίον, ἐς τὰ γυμνά, Hdt. 8.128, Th. 3.23; ἐπʼ ἐκεῖνο Luc. Cal. 15 (metaph.); πρὸς τὸν οὐρανόν Hdt. 4.94: metaph., τοξεύσασα τῆς εὐδοξίας E. Tr. 643, cf. Ion 1411: abs., use the bow, Hdt. 1.136; τὸν παῖδα τοξεύσας ἀπολωλέκεε by an arrow, Id. 3.74, cf. Ar. Av. 1187, Th.

II shoot, hit with an arrow, to be struck by an arrow

c. acc. objecti, shoot or hit with an arrow, X. An. 4.2.12; θηρίον Id. Cyr. 1.2.10; ἔλαφον Arist. Mir. 837a15:—Pass., to be struck by an arrow, Th. 3.98, X. An. 1.8.20, 4.1.18, Dsc. 3.32.

2 is aimed at

metaph., Ἔρως ἐτόξευσʼ αὐτόν E. Tr. 255; ἡ τυραννὶς πάντοθεν τοξεύεται is aimed at, Id. Fr. 850.

3 shoot from a bow, discharge, send forth, hath shot, arrows

c. acc. rei, shoot from a bow, metaph., discharge, send forth, τ. ὕμνους Pi. I. 2.3; γλῶσσα τοξεύσασα μὴ τὰ καίρια A. Supp. 446; ταῦτα νοῦς ἐτόξευσεν μάτην hath shot these arrows in vain, E. Hec. 603:—Pass., ἡμῖν γὰρ ἤδη πᾶν τετόξευται βέλος A. Eu. 676.

In the wild

τετόξευται · tetoxeutai Aeschylus, Eumenides 676
τοξεύσασα · toxeusasa Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 446–451
τόξευε · toxeue Aristophanes, Birds (DIORISIS sentence 874)
τοξεύειν · toxeuein Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..42 (DIORISIS sentence 500)
τοξευθέντα · toxeuthenta Demosthenes, Apollodorus Against Callipus 5 (DIORISIS sentence 10)
τοξεύῃ · toxeuēi Demosthenes, Third Philippic 17 (DIORISIS sentence 46)

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