Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon

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Corpus	Words	Max. Inst.	Freq./10K	Min. Inst.	Freq./10K
Greek Prose	4172940	281	0.67	281	0.67
Greek Poetry	671088	175	2.61	175	2.61
Greek Texts	4844028	456	0.94	456	0.94
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Words With Similar Definitions
Greek	1: katapaltês	2: aor	3: pelekismos	4: Arês	5: eupelekêtos
Latin	1: telum	2: ferrum	3: tormentum	4: catapulta	5: missilis
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Some Words that Regularly Appear with belos
In Greek Poetry (32 total):	stonoeis	katepephnon	aganos	epoichomai	ekpheugô
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belos [ballô, as Lat. jaculum from jacio]

1. a missile, esp. an arrow, dart, bolt, Hom.; of the rock hurled by the Cyclops, Od.; of the ox's leg thrown at Ulysses, id=Od.; hupek beleôn out of the reach of darts, out of shot, Il.; so exô belôn Xen.

2. like enchos, used of any weapon, as a sword, Ar.: an axe, Eur.

3. the agana belea of Apollo and Artemis in Hom. always denote the sudden, easy death of men and women respectively.

4. after Hom. of anything swift-darting, Zênos belê the bolts of Zeus, thunderbolts, Aesch.; purpnoun b. id=Aesch.; belê pagôn the piercing frosts, Soph.:--metaph., ommatôn belos the glance of the eye, Aesch.; himerou belos the shaft of love, id=Aesch.; of arguments, pan tetoxeutai belos id=Aesch.

This text is based on the following book(s):
Liddell and Scott. An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1889.
ISBN: 0199102066

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