βιός

bios-2

bow

Appears 3 times across Plato's dialogues.

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βιός, ὁ, A. bow, = τόξον, Il. 1.49, Heraclit. 48, etc. (Ambracian acc. to AB 1095. Cf. Vedic jiyā´ ‘bow-string’, Lith. gijà ‘thread’.)