02-07-2011, 08:38 PM
Quote:The second meaning is, I believe, though others do not - Robert and I debated this at length - a 'thrown weapon' and derives from the Greek 'Akontis' - a verb meaning 'thrown or hurled' and secondarily 'strikes or hits'.I'm no expert, but it looks as if you are confusing the ἄκων (and its diminutive, ἀκόντιον, akontion), a javelin so named because it has been sharpened to a point (ἀκή; the verb ἀκονάω means "sharpen", not thrown or hurled).
