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βέλεσι (belesi)

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

Found 41 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Heracles 3.422: βέλεσί τʼ ἀμφέβαλʼ ἰόν,

Plutarch, Camillus 20.2: … χον, ἐλπίσαι δʼ ἔτι καὶ παρασκευάσασθαι τοῖς ὑπομένουσι τὴν γὰρ ἄλλην πόλιν προέμενοι τὸ Καπιτώλιον ἐφράξαντο βέλεσι καὶ διατειχίσμασιν.

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.