Homer's detail emphasizes important symbolism of the bow.
You mind sending me the paragraph in the text they talking about ?
Drawing names out of a box without anyone else seeing.
This is just my guess, but maybe it's because the dictators use their words to climb up and become one?
For example, Adolf Hitler was in the congress for a long time before he became a dictator. He talked and gave lots of speeches that the Germans (At the time) thought were good, so they slowly trusted him and unfortunately let him become dictator.
I wouldn't use this as an answer to a quiz or test, though.
I'm sorry this was the only one I could find: <span>To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea. The line is telling what the kinsmen were going to do.</span>