Ilios; the city and country of the TrojansThe results of researches and discoveries on the site of Troy and throughout the Troad in the years 1871-72-73-78-79, including an autobiography of the author . Nos. 609-613. Sling Bullets of Haematite or Loadstone. (7 :8 actual size. Depth, 26 t) 29 ft ) No. Nos. 614-616. Sling Bullets of Loadstone or Haematite and Green Diorite. (3: 4 actual size. Depth, 30 to 33 ft.) from Camirus. It deserves particular attention that the sling is only oncementioned by Homer, and that we never find it used as a weapon in thepoems : Then he tied the hand with t
Ilios; the city and country of the TrojansThe results of researches and discoveries on the site of Troy and throughout the Troad in the years 1871-72-73-78-79, including an autobiography of the author . Nos. 609-613. Sling Bullets of Haematite or Loadstone. (7 :8 actual size. Depth, 26 t) 29 ft ) No. Nos. 614-616. Sling Bullets of Loadstone or Haematite and Green Diorite. (3: 4 actual size. Depth, 30 to 33 ft.) from Camirus. It deserves particular attention that the sling is only oncementioned by Homer, and that we never find it used as a weapon in thepoems : Then he tied the hand with twisted sheeps wool, torn from asling, which the attendant carried for his The sling was a common weapon throughout antiquity, and was stillused in the Middle Ages, Among the Greeks, the Acarnanians and theAetolians were celebrated as slingers (a^evhovrjrai), like the inhabitantsof the Balearic Islands in the later Koman a^e. In the time of theKoman Emperors, Yegetius distinguishes two kinds of slings : thefustibalus, in which the thongs were joined to a staff, and which wasmerely discharged bv a jerk; and the sling calledfunda, consisting ofthongs or twisted hair, sometimes human hair, which was swung overthe head before the cast. Acorn-like lead-bullets (glandes), or roundpebbles (lapides m
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