[Meaning] well-aimed.[1] "...[that] the release of the missiles [was] level and forceful and went with success."[2]
And elsewhere: "the Kardouchian slingers [are] best with both stones and lead balls, which they fire off successfully."[3]
*)epi/skopa: eu)/stoxa. th\n a)/fesin tw=n belw=n kat' i)/son biai/an kai\ e)pi/skopa i)e/nai. kai\ au)=qis: oi( *kardou=xoi sfendonh=tai a)/ristoi li/qois te kai\ molubdi/nais sfai/rais, a(\s e)cakonti/zousin e)pi/skopa.
[1] The headword, presumably extracted from the first of the quotations given (but also illustrated by the second), is neuter plural of this adjective, used adverbially. Its application to accuracy in archery goes back to
Herodotus 3.35.4, from where it might well be quoted here.
Hesychius epsilon5186 glosses the word with
tugxa/nonta tou= skopou=, "hitting the mark."
[2] Quotation unidentifiable.
[3] Again, truncated, at
kappa 373. The Kardouchoi, a Median people later known as the Gordyaioi (
Strabo 16.1.24), are copiously mentioned in books 3-7, esp. 4, of
Xenophon's
Anabasis. The present passage does not appear there verbatim, but cf. 4.2.27-8: the Kardouchoi used slingshots, but were best at archery (web address 1); and see also 3.4.18 for lead.
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