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hunter; the Roman warrior, with his bossed shield and short sword, was unconquerable in hand-to-hand conflict; and in the Roman wars with Gauls, Helvetians, and Britons the bow played no part; the untrained barbarians met their foe in battle array, and were routed. The Greeks were not a hunting race, and they learned the use of the bow from the Scythians, who were hunters one and all; so the ancient Norsemen, although they made frequent use of the bow, and thought highly of it as an instrument of the chase, rarely employed it in war. The Anglo-Saxons, in like manner, regarded the bow as of little use in war.