He saw himself in a superior reflection, and he was as a speeding arrow from the taut bow, hurtling with a mad grace, his maleness shining and scented with meadow rue.

Apollo aided Paris in the killing of Achilles by guiding the arrow of his bow into Achilles ' heel.

Apollo's most common attributes were the bow and arrow.

Alp Arslan, who took great pride in his reputation as the foremost archer of his time, motioned to his guards not to interfere and drew his bow, but his foot slipped, the arrow glanced aside and he received the assassin's dagger in his breast.

This work is stored in the bow as elastic potential energy, and when the bowstring is released, this stored energy is imparted to the arrow much more quickly than can be delivered by the muscles, resulting in much higher velocity and, hence, greater distance.

This is because the bowstring accelerates faster than the archer's fingers can open, and consequently some sideways motion is imparted to the string, and hence arrow nock, as the power and speed of the bow pulls the string off the opening fingers.

This flexing can be a desirable feature, since, when the spine of the shaft is matched to the acceleration of the bow ( string ), the arrow bends or flexes around the bow and any arrow-rest, and consequently the arrow, and fletchings, have an un-impeded flight.

The innovative aspect of the invention of the bow and arrow was the amount of power delivered to an extremely small area by the arrow.

Using a bow and arrow to take fish is known as bow fishing.

A poem of Callimachus to the goddess " who amuses herself on mountains with archery " imagines some charming vignettes: according to Callimachus, at three years old, Artemis, while sitting on the knee of her father, Zeus, asked him to grant her six wishes: to remain always a virgin ; to have many names to set her apart from her brother Apollo ; to be the Phaesporia or Light Bringer ; to have a bow and arrow and a knee-length tunic so that she could hunt ; to have sixty " daughters of Okeanos ", all nine years of age, to be her choir ; and for twenty Amnisides Nymphs as handmaidens to watch her dogs and bow while she rested.

Her symbols included the golden bow and arrow, the hunting dog, the stag, and the moon.

* The scene in the forest of the hero shooting a " huge " beast with his bow and arrow while his men watch, and the men retrieve the body-a deer in the Aeneid, and a sea snake in Beowulf.

A popular legend at the time was of the Amazons, a tribe of fierce female warriors who socialized with men only for procreation and even removed one breast to become better warriors ( the idea being that the right breast would interfere with the operation of a bow and arrow ).

Both ends of the bow are connected by a rope, similar to the design of a bow and arrow.

She poses with a bow and arrow, wearing white.

Whether he received formal military training is not recorded, but according to Suetonius, he displayed considerable marksmanship with the bow and arrow.

Extending from 18-10, 500 BC, the Kebaran culture shows clear connections to the earlier Microlithic cultures using the bow and arrow, and using grinding stones to harvest wild grains, that developed from the c. 24, 000-17, 000 BC Halfan culture of Egypt, that came from the still earlier Aterian tradition of the Sahara.

The Late Holocene brought advancements such as the bow and arrow and saw new methods of warfare in North America.

* The German-designed bow anchor, Bügelanker ( or Wasi ), has a sharp tip for penetrating weed, and features a roll-bar which allows the correct setting attitude to be achieved without the need for extra weight to be inserted into the tip.

A recurve crossbow is a bow that has tips curving away from the archer.

The compound bow has the string attached to the pulleys, one or both of which has one or more cables attached to the opposite limb.

In comparison with the French bow, the German bow has a taller frog, and it is held with the palm angled upwards, as is done for the upright members of the viol family.

In many situations, the standing bow has replaced the kowtow.

They have a ruff under the neck, which has black bars, is not very visible, and resembles a bow tie.

Traditionally it has been argued that prior to the beginning of the 14th century, the weapon was a self bow between four and five feet in length, known since the 19th century as the shortbow.

It has been proposed that the broad spectrum revolution of Kent Flannery ( 1969 ), associated with microliths, the use of the bow and arrow, and the domestication of the dog, all of which are associated with these cultures, may have been the cultural " motor " that led to their expansion.

The stone has an arcuated ( bow ) shape.

The trop shell consists of three people where the bow has a pair of sculling oars, and 2, 3 each a sweeping oar.

The technique of using a slide on a string has been traced to one-stringed African instruments similar to a " Diddley bow ".

The viola's less responsive strings and the heavier bow warrant a somewhat different bowing technique, and a violist has to lean more intensely on the strings.

* The viola's bow has a wider band of horsehair than a violin's bow, which is particularly noticeable near the frog ( or ' heel ' in the UK ).

The " frog " ( which holds the bowhair and adjusts its tension ) is also different from that of modern bows: whereas a violin bow frog has a " slide " ( often made of mother of pearl ), which pinches the hair and holds it flat and stationary across the frog, viol bows have an open frog that allows more movement of the hair.

The bow has a ground floor double staircase leading to a Ionic colonnaded loggia ( with the Truman Balcony at second-floor level ), known as the south portico.

As a representative of the National Rifle Association ( NRA ) explained, " he NRA has always maintained that fair chase, being in the field with your firearm or bow, is an important element of hunting tradition.

If the dressage rider has long hair, it is typically worn in a bun with a hair net or show bow.

However, most traditional bows are not center-shot and the arrow has to deflect around the handle in the archer's paradox ; such bows tend to give most consistent results with a narrower range of arrow spine that allows the arrow to deflect correctly around the bow.

Menorquí also has a few English loan words dating back to the British occupation such as " grevi ", " xumaquer ", " boinder " and " xoc " taken from " gravy ", " shoemaker ", " bow window " and " chalk ", respectively.

The viola d ' amore usually has six or seven playing strings, which are sounded by drawing a bow across them, just as with a violin.

The compound bow has its string applied to pulleys ( cams ), and one or both of the pulleys have one or more cables attached to the opposite limb.

The bow seems to have been invented in the later Paleolithic or early Mesolithic periods.

During the delay caused by this detour, two other British ships joined the battle: Theseus, which had been disguised as a first-rate ship, followed Foley's track across Guerrier < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s bow.

Bone laths had long been used in the Levantine and Roman tradition, two to stiffen each of the two siyahs ( the tips of the bow ), for a total of four laths per bow.

Two deacons go to priest-elect who, at that point, had been standing alone in the middle of the church, and bow him down to the west ( to the people ) and to the east ( to the clergy ), asking their consent by saying “ Command ye !” and then lead him through the holy doors of the altar where the archdeacon asks the bishop ’ s consent, saying, “ Command, most sacred master !” after which a priest escorts the candidate three times around the Holy Table, during which he kisses each corner of the Holy Table as well as the bishop's epigonation and right hand and prostrates himself before the holy table at each circuit.

Then an insignificant eleventh king will arise, who will overcome three of the ten kings ... after they have been slain, the seven other kings also will bow their necks to the victor.

Since Odysseus seems to be the only person ( perhaps excepting Telemachus ) who can actually use the bow, it could merely have been another delaying tactic of Penelope's.

In 2010, during an excavation at the Sibudu Cave in South Africa, led by Professor Lyn Wadley from the University of the Witwatersrand, researchers discovered the earliest direct evidence of human-made arrowheads: 64, 000-year-old stone points which may have been shot from a bow.

Very short arrows have been used, shot through a guide attached either to the bow ( an " overdraw ") or to the archer's wrist ( the Turkish " siper ").

At about 2: 30, Excellent having been directed by signal to bear up, edged away and at 2: 35, arriving abreast of the disabled Spanish three-decker Salvator del Mundo, engaged the latter on her weather bow for a few minutes ; then passing on to the next Spanish ship in succession, the San Ysidro, whose three topmasts had already been shot away.

Observing that the Victory was about to pass close astern, the Salvator del Mundo, which had more or less been disabled, judiciously hauled down her flag as soon as some of Victory's bow guns came to bear.

Those rescued by Grace and her father were from the bow section of the vessel which had been held by the rocks for some time before sinking.

Thus, Bṛhaspati is referred to as possessing a powerful bow with " Ṛta as its string " and as one prepared to " mount the chariot of Ṛta "; Agni is described as one who is " desirous of Ṛta ", one who is " Ṛta-minded " and as he who " spread Heaven and Earth by Ṛta "; the Maruts are referred to as " rejoicing in the house of Ṛta " and as " knowers of Ṛta "; Ushas is described as having been " placed at the root of Ṛta "; Varuna is praised as " having the form of Ṛta " and, along with Mitra as Mitra-Varuna, as " destroying the foes by Ṛta " and as " professing Ṛta by Ṛta ".

Ancient bow saws have been found in Japan.

On examination of the craft afterwards, it was found that she had been dished in the bow due to excessive speed, damage which was never allowed to be repaired, and was from then on affectionately referred to as the ' Royal Dent '.

Earlier archery had been called kyūjutsu, the skill of bow, but monks acting even as martial arts teachers led to creation of a new concept: kyūdō.

Others believe that the sound is produced by the friction of grain against grain that have been coated with dried salt, in a way that is analogous to the way that the rosin on the bow produces sounds from a violin string.

Bruno Legaignoux has continued to improve kite designs, including developing the bow kite design, which has been licensed to many kite manufacturers.

It seems to have been introduced to America during the immigration across the Bering Land Bridge, and despite the later introduction of the bow, atlatl use was widespread at the time of first European contact.