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C.D. Warner, et al., comp. The Library of the World’s Best Literature.
An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

The Emptied Quiver: Mnesalcus (Second Century B.C.)

By The Greek Anthology

Translation of Talcott Williams

THIS bending bow and emptied quiver, Promachus hangs as a gift to thee, Phœbus. The swift shafts men’s hearts hold, whom they called to death in the battle’s rout.