τοξικός

From τόξον (tóxon, “bow”) +‎ -ῐκός (-ĭkós).

τοξῐκός • (toxĭkós) m (feminine τοξῐκή, neuter τοξῐκόν); first/second declension

1. of or for the bow
   • 472 BCE, Aeschylus, The Persians 460:

     τοξικῆς τ’ ἄπο θώμιγγος ἰοὶ προσπίτνοντες ὤλλυσαν

     toxikês t’ ápo thṓmingos ioì prospítnontes ṓllusan

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Fragments 129
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 833B
   1. (elliptically for τοξικὴ τέχνη (tékhnē)) bowmanship, archery
      • 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 197A
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laches 193C
   2. (elliptically for τοξικὴ θυρίς (thurís)) a shothole, loophole, narrow window
      • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Judges 5.28
2. (of persons) skilled in the use of the bow
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.405B
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 6.2.4
3. (in neuter, collectively) the bowmen
   • 425 BCE, Aristophanes, Lysistrata 462
   1. (elliptically for τοξικὸν φάρμακον (phármakon)) poison for smearing arrows with
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, On Marvellous Things Heard 86
      • 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 165
      • 175 CE – 235 CE, Claudius Aelianus, On the Nature of Animals 9.15

• τοξοσύνη (toxosúnē)

• “τοξικός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “τοξικός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• τοξικός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • bow idem, page 91.

τοξικός • (toxikós) m (feminine τοξική, neuter τοξικό)

1. toxic

   Synonyms: δηλητηριώδης (dilitiriódis), φαρμακερός (farmakerós)

• see: τοξίνη f (toxíni, “toxin”)