• quiver (s.): phăretra, f. (φαρέτρα): Nor yet the q., Fuscus, with its charge Of poisoned arrows, Nec venenatis gravida sagittis, Fusce, pharetra, (abl. gov. by eget), Hod. Od. 1, 22, 3: to open the q., pharetram solvere, Ov. M. 5, 379: girded with a q., succinctam pharetra, Virg. Aen. 1, 323: wearing a q., phăretrātus: v. quivered: the boy with the q. (Cupid), puer ph., Ov. M. 10, 525: the lady of the q. (Diana), ph. virgo, Ov. Am. 1, 1, 2: to take (gird on) one's q., pharetram sūmĕre, Vulg. Is. xlix. 2: cf. sume arma tua, ph. et arcum, id. Gen. xxvii. 3: to put off the q. from the shoulder, ph. humero exuere, Ov. M. 2, 419: the q. rattles, sonat pharetra, Vulg. Job xxxix. 23. Sometimes used in the sense of the verb, by which express it: e. g. "there was a q. on his lip" (Ld. Lytton), *contremuit labrum (v. preced. art.): cf. quivering (subs.).