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βολή , ἡ,
A.throw:
1. stroke or wound of a missile (opp. πληγή, of sword or pike), Od.17.283, cf. 24.161; “β. πέτρων” E.Or.59; “λίθων” Phld.Ir.p.31 W. (pl.); “μέχρι λίθου καὶ ἀκοντίου βολῆς” Th.5.65; “β. ἔρωτος” shafts of love, AP12.160; βολαῖς . . σφόγγος ὤλεσεν γραφήν by its stroke or touch, A.Ag.1329; swing of ἁλτῆρες, Antyll. ap. Orib. 6.34.1.
2. κύβων βολαί throws or casts of dicc, S.Fr.429.
3. metaph., β. ὀφθαλμῶν quick glances, Od.4.150; “κάτω . . βλεμμάτων ῥέπει β.” A.Fr.242, cf. Philostr.VS2.27.5.
4. β. κεραύνιοι thunder-bolts, A. Th.430; βολαὶ ἡλίου sun-beams, S.Aj.877, cf. E.Ion 1134; χρυσοῦ . . βολαῖς with golden rays, of a statue, IG14.1026 (iii A. D.); βολαὶ χιόνος radiance, E.Ba.662; “τὰς ψυχὰς οἷον βολὰς εἶναι λέγουσιν” Plot.6.4.3.
5. βολαί, = ὠδῖνες, Procop.Goth.4.22.
6. payment, “ἀποδώσω ἐπὶ βολαῖς δυσίν” Stud.Pal.20.139 (vi A. D.).
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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