ῥαβδίον
Ἑκὼν σεαυτὸν τῇ Κλωθοῖ συνεπιδίδου παρέχων συννῆσαι οἷστισί ποτε πράγμασι βούλεται. Πᾶν ἐφήμερον, καὶ τὸ μνημονεῦον καὶ τὸ μνημονευόμενον → Be willing to give yourself up to Clotho, letting her spin to whatever ends she pleases. All is ephemeral—both memory and the object of memory (Marcus Aurelius 4.34f.)
English (LSJ)
τό, Dim. of ῥάβδος,
A little rod or shoot, Thphr.HP3.17.6, Dsc.1.14; the wand of Hermes, Babr.117.9, Arr.Epict.3.20.12; ἀπὸ ῥαβδίου οἰακίζεσθαι, of horses, Str.17.3.7. b divining-rod, LXX Ez.21.21 (26)(cod. A). 2 barbel or filament appended to the lips of certain fishes, which are said ῥαβδεύεσθαι τοῖς ἐν τῷ στόματι, ἃ καλοῦσιν οἱ ἁλιεῖς ῥαβδία Arist.HA620b32. 3 iron stile, used in encaustic painting, Plu.2.568a, Ath.15.687b. 4 ῥαβδία ἀκοντίων perh. javelin shafts, BCH35.16 (Delian inventory). 5 teacher's pointer (or = ῥάβδος 1.7), Eudem. ap. Simp.in Ph.732.32. II = ἅλιμον, Ps.-Dsc.1.91.
