Only Ulysses could draw his own bow, and he could shoot an arrow through twelve rings. By this sign Penel’opē recognised her husband after an absence of twenty years.
“This bow of mine sang to me of present war … ‘I have heard but once of such a weapon … the bow of Odysseus,’ said the queen.”—H. Rider Haggard: The World’s Desire, bk. ii. chap. i.
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