Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Corytus

Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary, and Greek Lexicon (Rich, 1849)

CORY'TUS (γωρυτός). Properly, and accurately a bow-case (Serv. ad Virg. Aen. x. 168.), as contradistinguished from the quiver for arrows (pharetra); although the same case was sometimes used to carry both the bow and arrows, when it is distinguished by a characteristic epithet (sagittiferi coryti, Sil. Ital. xv. 773.). An example of both kinds is given in the engraving (Corytus/1.1), the simple bow-case from a fictile vase, the one containing the bow and arrows from an engraved gem.

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  Corytus/1.1