bow (subs.) Copy link Outline I. An instrument for discharging arrows1. arcus, ūs2. cornu, n. (poet.II. Anything shaped like a bow, or curvedIII. A musician's b.IV. A tie of ribbon, etc. • bow (subs.): I. An instrument for discharging arrows: 1. arcus, ūs: to bend a b. against any one, a. in aliquem intendere, Cic.; tendere, Hor.; dirigere, Pers.; lunare, Ov.: a bent b., a. adductus, Virg.: an unbent b., a. remissus, Hor. Phr.: a manufactory of b.s, fabrica arcuaria, Veg.: a b.-maker, arcuarius, Dig. 2. cornu, n. (poet.: lit. a horn): to discharge arrows from a Parthian b., Partho torquere c. spicula, Virg.: Ov. Prov.: to have two strings to your b., duplici spe utier, i. e. uti, Ter. Phor. 4, 2, 13. II. Anything shaped like a bow, or curved: arcus: a harbour curved to a b., portus curvatus in arcum, Virg.: Ov.. v. arch. III. A musician's b.: (not plectrum, which was a small quill or stick used for striking the strings of a lyre): arcus, with some such word as fidium or *violinarius understood: v. fiddle-stick. IV. A tie of ribbon, etc.: *fasciolae plexus s. nexus. (or perhaps nodus, cf. Virg. Ecl. 8, 77).