βελῶν (belon)

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

Found 127 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Camillus 2.4: … τιμίας ἀφειστήκει συντριβεῖσα μεγάλαις μάχαις· ἐπαράμενοι δὲ τείχη μεγάλα καὶ καρτερά καὶ τὴν πόλιν ὅπλων καὶ βελῶν καὶ σίτου καὶ παρασκευῆς ἁπάσης ἐμπλήσαντες, ἀδεῶς ὑπέμενον τὴν πολιορκίαν, μακρὰν μὲν οὖσαν, οὐχ ἧττον δὲ το …

Strabo, Geography 3.1.8: εἶτα Μελλαρία ταριχείας ἔχουσα καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα Βελὼν πόλις καὶ ποταμός. ἐντεῦθεν οἱ διάπλοι μάλιστά εἰσιν εἰς Τίγγιν τῆς Μαυρουσίας καὶ ἐμπόρια καὶ ταριχεῖαι. ἦν …

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.