βέλει (belei)

βέλει is an Ancient Greek form of βέλος, meaning “missile, arrow, spear”. It is the dative singular neuter noun.

Found 42 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.prol.5: … κεραυνωθῆναι αὐτόν, λέγον οὕτως· Θρήϊκα χρυσολύρην τῇδʼ Ὀρφέα Μοῦσαι ἔθαψαν, ὃν κτάνεν ὑψιμέδων Ζεὺς ψολόεντι βέλει.

Hippocrates, De ulceribus 1: … σειν, ἀλλὰ τὰ περιέχοντα, ὅκως τὸ πῦον ἀποχωρέῃ, καὶ τὰ σκληρυνόμενα μαλαχθῇ. τῶν δὲ ἑλκέων, ὅπερ μὲν ἂν ὀξέϊ βέλεϊ διατμηθῇ ἢ διακοπῇ, ἐνδέχεται ἔναιμον φάρμακον καὶ τὸ κωλῦον διαπυεῖν ἀναξηραῖνόν τι. ἥ τις δʼ ὑπὸ τοῦ βέλεος …

All forms of βέλος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.