Ideoque mandatum est, ut nervis ferrum lignumque conectentibus, ante iactum incisis, emitterentur arcu sagittae, quae volitantes vires integras reservabant.
And so it was ordered that the cords by which the barbs were fastened to the shaft should be partly severed before the arrows were shot from the bows; these during their flight kept their whole strength,
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