But Odysseus of many wiles,

At once when he raised the great bow and viewed it on all sides—

As when a man skilled at the lyre and at singing

Easily stretches a string over a new peg,

Tying at-both ends the flexible gut of the sheep—

So without effort did Odysseus string the great bow.

He took it in his right hand and tested the cord.

It sang sweetly beneath like a swallow in its sound.

Source: Homer, Odyssey 21.404-411.