I. Lit., a quiver for holding arrows (poet. and late Lat.): “succinctam pharetrā,” Verg. A. 1, 323: “nec venenatis gravida sagittis, Fusce, pharetra,” Hor. C. 1, 22, 3: “pharetram solvere,” to undo, open, Ov. M. 5, 379: “venatricis puellae (Dianae),” Juv. 13, 80: “in pharetrā suā abscondit me,” Vulg. Isa. 49, 2; Verg. G. 2, 125; Prop. 2, 9, 10; Ov. P. 4, 13, 38; id. Am. 3, 9, 7; Val. Fl. 3, 607; Stat. Th. 4, 259 al.—
II. Transf., a kind of sundial in the form of a quiver, Vitr. 9, 8, 1.