Illustrations of school classics, arranged and described (1903)
Hill, George Francis, Sir, 1867-1948 · London, Macmillan · leaf 402
King, crowned, and wearinglong robe (kandys), quiver at his back, holding a bow inhis left, a spear with a spherical butt-end in his right.Herodotus (vii. 41) describes the Persian bodyguard ashaving spears with apples at the butt. The attitude ofthe king is meant to represent running. There is no…
Classical antiquities
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