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βόλος , ὁ,
A.throw with a casting-net, Orac. ap. Hdt.1.62; μέγα δίκτυον ἐς β. ἕλκει draws it back for a cast, Theoc.1.40: metaph., εἰς β. καθίστασθαι, ἔρχεσθαι, fall within the cast of the net, E.Ba.848, Rh.730.
b. net, Herod.7.75, Ael.NA8.3; for birds, AP6.184 (Zos.).
2. thing caught, ἰχθύων β. draught, catch, of fishes, A.Pers. 424, Plu.2.91c; βόλον ἀνσπάς ασθαι land one's catch, E.El.582.
II. casting of teeth, Arist.HA576b13 (pl.), GA748b9; καταμαθεῖν τὸν β. examine a horse's teeth, Hierocl.Facet.37.
III. cast of dice, Poll.7.204, Plaut.Rud.360.
IV. βόλος: θύρα, πηλός (i. e. βῶλος). Hsch.
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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