The corpus record

τοξοφόρος

toxophoros · ὁ

bow-bearing

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Where it lives

Rhesus 1 · 1.86/10k
Thesmophoriazusae 1 · 1.42/10k
Trojan Women 1 · 1.41/10k
Histories 2 · 0.11/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k
Iliad 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

τοξο-φόρος · toxo-phoros — LSJ

bow-bearing

bow-bearing, epith. of Artemis, Il. 21.483, Simon. 107.4 (= IG 7.53), Ar. Th. 970 (lyr.); of Apollo, h.Ap. 13, 126, Pi. Pae.Fr. 19.30; of Heracles, E. Tr. 804 (lyr.); of the Cretans, Pi. P. 5.41; of the Medes and Persians, Simon. 137.3, Orac. ap. Hdt. 9.43, cf. Epigr. ap. Arist. Fr. 674; of the Phrygians, E. Rh. 32 (lyr.): Subst., οἱ τ., = τοξόται, Hdt. 1.103.

In the wild

τοξοφόρον · toxophoron Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 2 (DIORISIS sentence 757)
τοξοφόρων · toxophorōn Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 5.1 (DIORISIS sentence 3663)
τοξοφόροι · toxophoroi Euripides, Rhesus 1 (DIORISIS sentence 25)
τοξοφόρῳ · toxophorōi Euripides, Trojan Women 1 (DIORISIS sentence 430)
τοξοφόρους · toxophorous Herodotus, Histories 1.103.1 (DIORISIS sentence 741)
τοξοφόρων · toxophorōn Herodotus, Histories 9.43.1 (DIORISIS sentence 9625)

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Where it came from

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