Parthians. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Parthians


The Parthian, presuming on his flight and arrows, shot backward. Davidson’s Virgil, by Buckley, Georgics, Book III. Page 69; Gay’s Trivia, Book II. Line 295.	1
Like the Parthian, I shall flying fight. Shakespeare.—Cymbeline, Act I. Scene 7.	2
How quick they wheel’d, and, flying, behind them shot Sharp sleet of arrowy shower. Milton.—Paradise Regained, Book III. Line 323; Gray, “The Fatal Sisters,” Verse 1.	3
Death like a Parthian flies, and flying kills. Jasper Fisher.—The True Trojans, Act III. Scene 5.	4