βόλος

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. NA 8.3; for birds, AP 6.184 (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. HA 576b13 (pl.), GA 748b9; 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.