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Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Corytus

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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

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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