pharetra
pharetra, a quiver
- Lit., a quiver for holding arrows (poet. and late Lat.): succinctam pharetrā, Verg. A. 1, 323: nec venenatis gravida sagittis, Fusce, pharetra, Hor. C. 1, 22, 3: pharetram solvere, to undo, open, Ov. M. 5, 379: venatricis puellae (Dianae), Juv. 13, 80: in pharetrā suā abscondit me, Vulg. Isa. 49, 2; Verg. G. 2, 125; Prop. 2, 9, 10; Ov. P. 4, 13, 38; id. Am. 3, 9, 7; Val. Fl. 3, 607; Stat. Th. 4, 259 al.—
- II Transf., a kind of sundial in the form of a quiver, Vitr. 9, 8, 1.
spicula non vereor longis exempta faretris [v. l. pharetris; gl.: ]ob cocrum
non audes humero ferre faretram(
at ille sumpto arcu cum ~a cepit ire per insulam
tulit ad scaccarum unum arcum ‥ et unam feretram cum xij sagittis
faretram
hec faretra,quiveree
pharatra,a narrowcase ‥ hec feretra, A.qwywere ‥ hec faretra, A.a quiver
his et hujuscemodi spiculis de faretris, ut aestimo
ne nos tangat / hic arcus, impetra, / cujus arcus / fuisti paretra
nunc prosam profero de rudi pharetra: / scriptorum graciam, o mater, impetra
aliqui ‥ ex propria ~a quedam scripserunt statuta et scripta mirabilia
ex propria pharetra [v. l. faratra ] exiit non ista sagitta
Liber unus, qui Pharetra solet nominari, conscribatur, continens magis communia super cultu divino, quoad modum legendi epistolas, prophetias, evangelia, lectiones et capitula Horarum canonicarum, nec non lectiones ad matutinum, ad mensam et collationem in refectorio, etc.
- , φαρέτρα, a quiver: sagittifera, O.: succincta pharetrā, V.: venenatis gravida sagittas, H.: pharetram solvere, open, O.
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…tua gloria nostra. Dixit et eliso percussis aere pennis inpiger umbrosa Parnasi constitit arce eque sagittifera prompsit duo tela pharetra diversorum operum fugat hoc, facit illud amorem. Quod facit, auratum est et cuspide fulget acuta ; quod…
Ovid, Metamorphoses
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…, arbor eris certe dixit mea. Semper habebunt te coma, te citharae, te nostrae, laure, pharetrae tu ducibus Latiis aderis, cum laeta triumphum vox canet et visent longas Capitolia pompas postibus Augustis eadem fidissima custos…
Ovid, Metamorphoses
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…deus arquitenens, et numquam talibus armis ante nisi in dammis capreisque fugacibus usus, mille gravem telis exhausta paene pharetra perdidit effuso per vulnera nigra veneno. Neve operis famam posset delere vetustas, instituit sacros celebri certamine ludos ,…
Ovid, Metamorphoses
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…fer opem, deprendimur inquam, armigerae, Diana, tuae, cui saepe dedisti ferre tuos arcus inclusaque tela pharetra. Mota dea est spissisque ferens e nubibus unam me super iniecit. Lustrat caligine tectam amnis et ignarus…
Ovid, Metamorphoses
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…, et gens quaecumque virorum est, Bella gerit gladiis ; nam Medos proelia prima Exarmant, vacuaeque iubent remeare pharetrae. Nulla manus illis fiducia, tota veneni est. Credis, Magne, viros, quos in discrimina belli…
Lucan, Pharsalia
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…lassata Therapnis ad patrem fratremque redit, comes haeret eunti mater et ipsa umeros exsertaque bracchia velat ; ipsa arcum pharetrasque locat vestemque latentem deducit sparsosque tumet componere crines. Protinus adgreditur regem atque ibi testibus aris hanc tibi, ait…
Statius, P. Papinius, Achilleis
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…nec fracta ruentibus undis saxa nec ad vastae trepidare silentia silvae. iam tunc arma manu, iam tunc cervice pharetrae, et ferri properatus amor durataque multo sole geluque cutis ; tenero nec fluxa cubili membra, sed ingenti saxum…
Statius, P. Papinius, Achilleis
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…monuit sacris celebrare deos. arcus, victor, pace relata, Phoebe, relaxa umeroque graves levibus telis pone pharetras resonetque manu pulsa citata vocale chelys nil acre velim magnumque modis intonet altis, sed quale soles leviore lyra flectere…
Seneca, Agamemnon
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…modo fixa revellunt arma deis, clipeisque obducunt pectora fractis, et galeas humiles et adhuc sordentia tabo spicula non pharetris quisquam, non ense decorus, non spectandus equo ; cessat fiducia valli, murorum patet omne latus, munimina…
Statius, P. Papinius, Thebais
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…, sed iam signa dabat nascens in saecula uirtus. non illis solitum crispare hastilia campo, nec mos pennigeris pharetram impleuisse sagittis pila uolunt breuibusque habiles mucronibus enses ; aere caput tecti surgunt super agmina cristis. At, quos…
NA, Silius Italicus, Corpus Poetarum Latinorum. Vol. 3, ed. W. C. Summers, 1905
PHARETRA(φαρέτρα, ap. Herod. (φαρετρεών), a quiver. A quiver, full of arrows, was the usual accompaniment of the bow. [ARCUS] It was consequently part of the attire of every nation addicted to archery. Virgil applies to it the epithets Cressa, Lycia (Georg. 3.345; Aen. 7.816); Ovid mentions the pharetratus Geta (Epist. de Ponto, 1.8, 6); Herodotus represents it as part of the ordinary armour of the Persians (7.61). The quiver, like the bow-case (corytus), was principally made of hide or leather (Hdt. 2.141), but also of wood or metal. It was adorned with gold (Anacr. 14.6; Verg. A. 4.138, 11.858-Z2), painting (Ovid, Epist. Her. 21.173), and braiding (πολύρραπτον, Theocr. 25.265). It had a lid (πῶμα, Hom. Il. 4.116; Od. 9.314). Among the Scythians the quiver and bow-case formed one object (cf. Antiq. du Bosp. Cimm. i. pl. 33).
The form of the Greek quiver is shown in the cut below. It was suspended from the right shoulder by a belt [BALTEUS], passing over the breast and behind the back. Its most common position was on the left hip, in the usual place of the modern sword, and consequently, as Pindar says, under the elbow (Ol. 2.151, s. 92) or under the arm (ὑπωλένιον, Theocr. 17.30). It was worn thus by the Scythians (Schol. in Pind. l. c.) and by the Egyptians, and is so represented in the preceding figure of the Amazon Dinomache, copied from a Greek vase (Hope, Costume of the Ancients, 1.22). The left-hand figure in the same woodcut is from one of the Aegina marbles. It is the statue of an Asiatic archer, probably Paris, whose quiver (fractured in the original) is suspended equally low, but with the opening towards his right elbow, so that it would be necessary for him in taking the arrows to pass his hand behind his body instead of before it. To this fashion was opposed the Cretan method of carrying the quiver, which is exemplified in the woodcut, Vol. 1. p. 416, and is uniformly seen in the ancient statues of Artemis.
[J.Y] [A.H.S](φαρέτρα). The quiver. See arcus.