Quiver and arrows
object · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
the quiver · an arrow · the deadly arrows
in the texts
Odyssey
The quiver of arrows kept alongside Odysseus's bow, one of which is used to win the contest.
She sat down with it on her knees, weeping bitterly as she took the bow out of its case, and when her tears had relieved her, she went to the room where the suitors were, carrying the bow and the quiver, with the many deadly arrows that were inside it.
He took an arrow that was lying upon the table - for those which the Achaeans were so shortly about to taste were all inside the quiver - he laid it on the center-piece of the bow, and drew the notch of the arrow and the string toward him, still seated on his seat.
she then went with her maidens into the store room at the end of the house, where her husband's treasures of gold, bronze, and wrought iron were kept, and where was also his bow, and the quiver full of deadly arrows that had been given him by a friend whom he had met in Lacedaemon - Iphitos the son of Eurytos.
Rigveda
The archer's quiver, personified as father of the many arrows it carries, sounding in battle.
Father of many, many are his sons — the quiver makes a sound when it goes down into battle;