A dictionary of Greek and Roman . nated apSis (Herod, , iv. 81), whence the instrument, used to ex-tract arrow-heads from the bodies of the wounded,was called apBLo6ripa. [Forceps.] Great quan-tities of flint arrow heads are found in Celtic bar-rows throughout the north of Europe, in form ex-actly resembling those which are still used by theIndians of North America. (Hoares Anc. Wilt-shire, South, p. 183.) Nevertheless, the Scythiansand Massagetae had them of bronze. (Herod. II. cc.)Mr. Dodwell found flint arrow-heads on the plainof Marathon, and concludes that they had be-l
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . nated apSis (Herod, , iv. 81), whence the instrument, used to ex-tract arrow-heads from the bodies of the wounded,was called apBLo6ripa. [Forceps.] Great quan-tities of flint arrow heads are found in Celtic bar-rows throughout the north of Europe, in form ex-actly resembling those which are still used by theIndians of North America. (Hoares Anc. Wilt-shire, South, p. 183.) Nevertheless, the Scythiansand Massagetae had them of bronze. (Herod. II. cc.)Mr. Dodwell found flint arrow-heads on the plainof Marathon, and concludes that they had be-longed to the Persian army. (Tour through Greece,vol. ii. p. 159.) Those used by the Greeks werecommonly bronze, as is expressed by the epithet SAGITTA. 1001 Xa\KYip7js, fitted with bronze, which Homerapplies to an arrow. (//. xiii. 650, 662.) AnotherHomeric epithet, viz. three-tongued (rpiyXw-^LV,II. v. 393), is illustrated by the forms of the arrow-heads, all of bronze, which are represented in theannexed woodcut. That which lies horizontally. was found at Persepolis. and is drawn of the size! of the original. The two smallest, one of whichi shows a rivet-hole at the side for fastening it to! the shaft, are from the plain of Marathon. (Skelton,Must, of Armour at Goodrich Court, i. pi. 44.)The fourth specimen was also found in Attica.(Dodwell, I. c.) Some of the northern nations,who could not obtain iron, barbed their arrow-heads with bone. (Tacit. Germ. 46.) The use of barbed (aduncae, hamatae), and poi-soned arrows (venenatae sagiitae) is always repre-sented by the Greek and Roman authors as thecharacteristic of barbarous nations. It is attri-buted to the Sauromatae and Getae (Ovid. 10. 63, 64, de Ponto, iv. 7. 11, 12) ; to theServii (Amoldi, Chron. Slav. 4. § 8) and Scythians(Plin. x. 53. s. 115), and to the Arabs(Pollux, i. 1 0) and Moors. (Hor. Carm. i. 22. 3.)When Ulysses wishes to have recourse to this in-sidious practice, he is obliged to travel north o
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