Apr 4, 2022
The Making of a Bow
Anthologia Palatina 6.113 = Simmias of Rhodes (early Hellenistic period) Before, I – the twofold weapon Of the bounding goat with shaggy pelt That dwells in the wild – wore a crown Of green leaves; but now the craftsman Who polishes horn has fitted me For Nicomachus, stretching on me The mighty sinews of a spiral-horned ox. πρόσθε μὲν ἀγραύλοιο δασύτριχος ἰξάλου αἰγὸς δοιὸν ὅπλον χλωροῖς ἐστεφόμαν πετάλοις: νῦν δέ με Νικομάχῳ κεραοξόος ἥρμοσε τέκτων, ἐντανύσας ἕλικος καρτερὰ νεῦρα βοός.
Archers, Hans Thoma, 1887
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