Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Sagitto

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. 

SAGIT'TO (τοξεύω). To shoot with a bow and arrows; an art amongst the Greeks and Romans almost entirely confined to the sports of the field or exercises of skill. The illustration (Sagitto/1.1), from a fictile vase, represents one of three Greek youths shooting at a cock tied on the top of a column (one of whom is kneeling in the same position as the figure s. PHARETRATUS, p. 499.), and shows the precise manner of handling the bow, fixing the arrow, drawing it between the fingers, and of directing its course by projecting the forefinger of the left hand along the shaft; thus graphically illustrating the various passages which describe the process — nervo aptare sagittas (Virg. Aen. x. 131.); imponere (Ov. Met. viii. 381.); dirigere (Claud. iv. Cons. Honor. 530.) &c.

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  Sagitto/1.1