Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Pharetratus

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. 

PHARETRA'TUS. Carrying a quiver (Virg. Hor. Ovid. &c.); which was practised amongst the ancients in three different ways: — 1. by suspending it horizontally between the shoulders and at the back, as shown by the right-hand figure of the first woodcut (Pharetratus/1.1), so that the arrow was drawn out over the right shoulder. 2. By suspending it low down the back so that the mouth came on a level with the left hip, as in the left-hand example, when the arrow was extracted by passing the hand across the belly. Both these figures personify the goddess of the chase, the first from a medal, the other from a terra-cotta lamp. 3. Or lastly, by slinging the quiver across the back, with its mouth towards the right elbow, so that the arrows were taken out by passing the right hand behind the back, in the manner exhibited by the annexed example (Pharetratus/1.2), from a Greek marble, representing a Phrygian archer. The three figures will also explain many passages, more especially in the Greek poets, where the epithets used distinctly imply one or other of the different arrangements exhibited above.

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