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classical bow. The bow of Pandarus is said to have been made of the horns of the wild goat; the Grecian bows, originally of horn, were later made of wood; the strings were of horse-hair or hides cut into narrow thongs. The arrows were of light wood or were reeds tipped with barbed points. The bows of the northern nations were longer and were of wood, and when unstrung were almost straight; it is from them that the English long-bow was developed.