Brewer's: Sagittary

A terrible archer, half beast and half man, whose eyes sparkled like fire, and struck dead like lightning. He is introduced into the Trojan armies by Guido da Colonna.

The dreadful Sagittary Appals our numbers.

Shakespeare: Troilus and Cressida, v. 5

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