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Teucer’s bow

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Teucer’s bow
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The specific bow used through Teucer’s sustained attack and dropped when Hector wounds him.

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Claims

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·Direct

Teucer uses his bow from beneath Ajax’s shield, emerging to hit men and retreating under cover after each shot.

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“Teucer with his bow, and took his place under cover of the shield of Ajax son of Telamon. When Ajax lifted his shield Teucer would peer round, and when he had hit any one in the throng, the man would fall dead; then Teucer would hie back to Ajax as a child to its mother, and again duck down under his shield”
·Direct

Teucer’s bow drops from his hand after Hector’s stone breaks his arm sinew.

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“broke the sinew of his arm so that his wrist was less, and the bow dropped from his hand”
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Teucer’s bow is carried by Pandion.

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“with Pandion to carry Teucer’s bow.”
·Reported

Ajax says Teucer’s bow was given to him by Apollo.

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“the bow which Phoebus Apollo gave you”
·Direct

Teucer carries his bow and quiver in his hands and uses them to shower arrows on the Trojans.

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“with his bow and quiver in his hands. Forthwith he showered his arrows on the Trojans”
·Direct

Teucer’s bowstring breaks as he draws, sending the arrow astray and the bow from his hands.

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“breaking his bowstring for him just as he was drawing it and about to take his aim; on this the arrow went astray and the bow fell from his hands”
·Reported

Ajax says Jove has made Teucer’s bow and arrows useless to spite the Danaans.

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“your bow and your arrows be, for Jove has made them useless”
·Direct

Teucer puts his bow away in his tent.

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“Teucer then took his bow and put it by in his tent”

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·Direct
“Teucer with his bow”
·Direct
“the bow dropped from his hand”
·Direct
“with Pandion to carry Teucer’s bow”
·Direct
“the bow which Phoebus Apollo gave you”
·Direct
“breaking his bowstring for him just as he was drawing it and about to take his aim”

Passage preview

Book 8 · Passage 24

After him came Agamemnon and Menelaus, sons of Atreus, the two Ajaxes clothed in valour as with a garment, Idomeneus and his companion in arms Meriones, peer of murderous Mars, and Eurypylus the brave son of Euaemon. Ninth came Teucer with his bow, and took his place under cover of the shield of Ajax son of Telamon. When Ajax lifted his shield Teucer would peer round, and when he had hit any one in the throng, the man would fall dead; then Teucer would hie back to Ajax as a child to its mother, and again duck down under his shield.