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Sagittary   Listen
noun
Sagittary  n.  
1.
(Myth.) A centaur; a fabulous being, half man, half horse, armed with a bow and quiver.
2.
The Arsenal in Venice; so called from having a figure of an archer over the door.






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... Rome: their savage voices ascended in tumultuous uproar to the chambers of the capitol: a million of spectators sat round them: standing in the centre was a single statuesque figure—the imperial sagittary, beautiful as an Antinous, and majestic as a Jupiter, whose hand was so steady and whose eye so true, that he was never known to miss, and who, in this accomplishment at least, was so absolute in his excellence, ...
— The Caesars • Thomas de Quincey



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