Weapons
object · 3 works · 5 mentions · 6 anchored passages
spear · spears · a weapon · armed · arms · bow · bows · missiles · shoot · steel
spoken of as
1 expressionThe weapon1 mention
Risālah fī ʻilm al-akhlāq (Arabic)
for an official is to a king what a weapon is to a fighter, and if the king loses honest officials, there has befallen him what befalls a fighter left without a weapon.
in the texts
Cyropaedia
Spears, bows, and missiles used in hunting and warfare and in examples of trained skill.
Now the enemy on their part, when they saw the Medes advance, halted, some with spears poised, others with bows drawn, expecting that the other side would also halt, as soon as they came within bow-shot, just as they were accustomed generally to do;
And as he was present himself, he gave the royal command that no one should throw a spear before Cyrus had his fill of hunting.
For those men are not yet valiant warriors, who, however skilful in the use of bow or spear and in horsemanship, are still found wanting if it is ever necessary to suffer hardship;
Risālah fī ʻilm al-akhlāq
The fighter's weapon, the analogue of the official in the theory of appointments.
for an official is to a king what a weapon is to a fighter, and if the king loses honest officials, there has befallen him what befalls a fighter left without a weapon.
The Third Tetralogy
The hypothetical implements—steel, stone, or wood—raised in argument as means the defendant could lawfully have used against his aggressor, contrasted with the bare hands he actually used.
and even if I had used steel or stone or wood to beat him off, I was acting within my rights;
Moreover, if it was with his hands and not with steel that the defendant slew, then the fact that his hands are more a part of himself than is steel makes him so much the more a murderer.