. The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary and Greek lexicon; forming a glossary of all the words representing visible objects connected with the arts, manufactures, and every-day life of the Greeks and Romans, with representations of nearly two thousand objects from the antique. hown by the bottom figure, alsofrom a fictile vase; and when strung,was bent backwards against thecurve, which must have given it tre-mendous power, and will explain thetrue meaning of Homers epithet ira-Xivrovov (2/. viii. 266.). The twoforms are also distinguished by theLatin writers with the epithets pa-tu
. The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary and Greek lexicon; forming a glossary of all the words representing visible objects connected with the arts, manufactures, and every-day life of the Greeks and Romans, with representations of nearly two thousand objects from the antique. hown by the bottom figure, alsofrom a fictile vase; and when strung,was bent backwards against thecurve, which must have given it tre-mendous power, and will explain thetrue meaning of Homers epithet ira-Xivrovov (2/. viii. 266.). The twoforms are also distinguished by theLatin writers with the epithets pa-tulus (Ov. Met. viii. 30.), and sinu-osus or sinuatus (Id. Met. viii. i. 1. 23.). 2. The Roman bow, as shown intheir paintings, did not differ fromthe Greek one. 3. Arcus Scythicus. The Scythianbow mentioned by the Greek andLatin authors, possessed a very dif-ferent form from either of the twopreceding examples, as will be per-ceived by the illustration copiedfrom the baseof a candela-brum in theVilla Albani,which repre-sents Herculescarrying off thesacred tripodfrom the templeof Apollo (seeHygin. ). A bowof similar formis seen in thehands of Hercules on a gem in theFlorence Gallery; on one of theStosch Cabinet; and on the base of acandelabrum at Dresden, representing. AKCUS. 53 the same quarrel between Herculesand Apollo. The lunated figure in the firstwoodcut has often been cited byphilologists as a specimen of theScythian bow. but the following par-ticulars will satisfactorily prove thatsuch a supposition is not supportedby authority: — 1. Hercules madeuse of two bows (Herod, iv. 10.) : oneof which, as he received it fromApollo (Apollodor. ii. 4. 11.), wasnecessarily a Greek one ; the other,which he had from Teutarus, a Scy-thian shepherd Lycophr. 56. Lycophr. 50. Compare Theocr. 55.). was necessarily one of thoseused by the natives of that Lycophron (917.) assimilates theScythian bow to a serpent; andBecker, in describing the figu
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