Note 302 — APPENDIX.
William Dansey translation
The arts of war and hunting advanced passibus æquis; both at first equally rude, and destitute of ingenuity of contrivance in their respective instruments of assault:
Hor. Sat. L. i. Sat. iii. 101.
Unguibus et pugnis, dein fustibus, atque ità porrò Pugnabant armis quæ post fabricaverat usus.
Before the age of Homer, the bow and arrow, “the artillery of ancient heroes,” the ἔγχος or δόρυ, spear or pike, ξίφος the sword, and κορύνη the club, constituted the entire armoury of the warriors and hunters of semi-barbarous Greece. See Iliad xi. and xvii. Odyss. ix. and xix. How scanty was the furniture of Hercules in his attack of the Nemean lion!
Theocriti Idyll. L. xxv. 206.
αὐτὰρ ἐγὼ κέρας ὑγρὸν ἑλὼν, κοίλην τε φαρέτραν, Ἰῶν ἐμπλείην, νεόμην· ἑτέρῃφι τε βάκτρον εὐπαγὲς, αὐτόφλοιον, ἐπηρεφέος κοτίνοιο, εὔμετρον.
The Persian hunting of Cyrus, as described in the Cyropædia, (L. i. c. v.), presents us with warlike weapons alone. “Than tooke every man” (I quote from The GovernourSir T. Elyot’s. The Governour. B. i. c. xviii.) “with hym his bowe and quiver with arowes, his sword or hach of steele, a little tergat, and two dartes.”