βέλος , εος (βάλλω): missile,
shot; anything thrown, whether a shaft (arrow
or dart), a stone, or the footstool hurled at Odysseus in Od. 17.464; of the effects of a shot,
Il. 8.513
; βέλος ὀξύ, sharp
‘pang,’ Il.
11.269
; ἐκ βελέων, out of
‘range.’