Wonders of bodily strength and skill : in all ages and all countries (1873)
Depping, Guillaume, 1829-1901, Russell, Charles, tr · New York : Scribner, Armstrong & Co. · leaf 260
sand, at the end ofwhich was attached a cord with a pigeon tied to it. The THE BOW IN ANCIENT TIMES. 255 two competitors were Teucer and Meriones, and the lot tohave the first shot fell to Teucer. This hero shot a boltwhich flew with rapidity, but as he had not promised tosacrifice to Apollo a… … Shooting with the Bow amongst the Ancients. (From a painted ^in the Naples Museum.) Meriones, who stood with his arrow ready, snatched thebow from the hands of Teucer, followed with his eye thepigeon as it rose to the clouds, shot his arrow, and struckthe bird under the wing. It fell at Meriones…
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