Bound down on every side with many bands because it shall not run at rovers.
1726, Joseph Addison, Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals: Especially in relation to the Latin and Greek poets[1]:
You must always give your men of great reading leave to show their talents on the meanest subjects, says Eugenius ; it is a kind of shooting at rovers : where a man lets fly his arrow without taking any aim, to show his strength.
