Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Pharetra

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. 

PHAR'ETRA (φαρέτρα). A quiver, or case for arrows only, in contradistinction to corytus, a bow case, but which sometimes held the arrows as well as the bow. See the three following illustrations.

2. A particular kind of sun-dial, which from its designation is supposed to have borne some resemblance to a quiver; but in the absence of any known example representing such a figure, the interpretation can only be regarded in the light of a conjecture. Vitruv. ix. 8.