... δυσμαχώτατον τέρας·
ὁς δὴ κεραυνοῦ κρείσσον’ εὑρήσει φλόγα,
βροντάς θ’ ὑπερβάλλοντα καρτερὸν κτύπον.
—Æschylus, Prometheus Vinctus, 921.
[380] “State Papers,” Domestic Series, 1581-90.
[381] “Archæologia,” xiii. 27, 397-400. The term slur-bow is, I presume, akin to the German schleuderbogen.
[382] “The Book of Archery,” London, 1840, Pl. xvii., No. 5.
[383] “The Cross-bow,” 1903, fig. 84, p. 129.
[384] Rupert’s Diary, in Warburton, “Prince Rupert,” iii. 163.