Book XXI · The Winning Shot · Scene 1 of 2
Suitors sneer he handles it like a thief
45“Lo an inspector and a judge of bows!
Perhaps he has a bow like that at home,
Or else would make one like it. How he shifts
The thing with busy hands from side to side —
The vagabond, well trained in knavish tricks!”
46Then also said another insolent youth:
“May he in all things be as fortunate
As now, when he shall try to bend that bow!”
Homer, The Odyssey, translated by William Cullen Bryant, 1871. Public domain.