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 270
themouth of the serpent a little above the head of the child.Thus the animal was killed, and the father has suspendedhis bow upon this oak in witness of his good fortune andhis skill. The archers of antiquity shot their arrows to a distanceof 574 feet, according to the report of Vegetius, and it… … THE NATIONS MOST CELEBRATED AS ARCHERS. 267 The Greeks of the Eastern empire were no less accom-plished in shooting with the bow than their ancestors.Zosimus, a historian of the fifteenth century, speaks of anarcher named Menelaus, who, with a single bow, shot offthree arrows at one and the same…
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