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arc not only means to hurl, but to sing or resound. 

 Homer and Eannjana often allude to the sonorous- 

 ness of the bow and its string. Homer says in 

 speaking of the bow of Pandarus, " stridit funis, et 

 nervus valde sonuit." And when Ulysses drew his 

 avenging bow, the cord emitted a clear sound like the 

 voice of a swallow, Locaka, another name for a cord, 

 also means one who speaks, from Ibc, loqid; and 

 the Persian rid, roda, a bow-string, also means a 

 song. In the Veda the root arc' is used in speaking 

 of the roaring wind, or of a long echoing sound. 

 Again tdvara, a bow-string, is from tan, to stretch, to 

 sound. The Greek rovoe must be referred to the 

 same root, and signifies a bow-string, a sound, an 

 accent, a tone. Benfey traces the Greek \vpa, in 

 which this root is wanting, through AuSpa, or rudra. 

 Kuhn confirms this transformation by the analogy 

 between the Vedic god Rndra- and the Greek Apollo, 

 both of whom are armed with a bow, Eudra, like 

 Apollo, is a great physician ; the former is called 

 kapardin, from his mode of wearing his long hair, 

 and vanku from his tortuous gait as the god of 

 storms ; to the latter the epithets of ax f ic X/" and 

 Aoiac are applied ; the mouse was sacred to Kudro, 

 and Apollo had the surname of Sniintheus, from the 

 mouse, Sjutv0a, which was his symbol. 



These wind and stringed instruments were not, in 

 their primitive forms, at once used as an accompani- 

 ment to song. Before such use was possible, there 



