A dictionary of Greek and Roman . When not used, the bow was put into a case(to^oO^kyi, yoopvros, Corytus), which was made ofleather, and sometimes ornamented (<paeii/6s, xxi. 54). The bow-case is very conspicuousin the sculptured bas-reliefs of Persepolis. Itfrequently held the arrows as well as the bow,and on this account is often confounded with thePharetra or quiver. Though its use was com-paratively rare among the Greeks and Romans,Ave find it exhibited in a bas-relief in the MuseoPio-Clementino (vol. iv. tav. 43), which is copiedin the annexed ARDALION (ap
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . When not used, the bow was put into a case(to^oO^kyi, yoopvros, Corytus), which was made ofleather, and sometimes ornamented (<paeii/6s, xxi. 54). The bow-case is very conspicuousin the sculptured bas-reliefs of Persepolis. Itfrequently held the arrows as well as the bow,and on this account is often confounded with thePharetra or quiver. Though its use was com-paratively rare among the Greeks and Romans,Ave find it exhibited in a bas-relief in the MuseoPio-Clementino (vol. iv. tav. 43), which is copiedin the annexed ARDALION (apMxiov). [Funus.] AREA. [Agricultura, p. 44.] AREIOTAGUS. The Areiopagus (6 Apeiosirdyos, or hill of Ares), at Athens, was a rockyeminence, lying to the west of, and not far from theAcropolis. To account for the name, ATarious storiesAvere told. Thus, some said that it Avas so called fromthe Amazons, the daughters of Ares, having encampedthere when they attacked Athens ; others again, asAeschylus, from the sacrifices there offered by themto that god ; Avhile the more received opinion con-nected the name with the legend of Ares havingbeen brought to trial there by Poseidon, for themurder of his son Halirrhotius. (Dem. c. 642 ; Aeschyl. Eum. 659.) To none, hoAvever,of these legends did the place OAve its fame, butrather to the council (H iv Apeicp -naycc fiovXrj),which held its sittings there, and was sometimes AltEIOPAGUS. AREIOPAGUS. 127 called fH &vu> jSotA^, to distinguish it from thesenate of Five Hundred, which sat in the Cerameicuswithin the city. Th
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