ῥάβδος: Difference between revisions

|mdlsjtxt=![[ῥάβδος]], ἡ,<br /><b class="num">I.</b> a rod, [[wand]], [[stick]], [[switch]], Lat. [[virga]], Hom., Xen.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> a [[magic]] [[wand]], as that of [[Circe]] or [[Hermes]], Hom.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> a [[fishing]]-rod, Od.:—also a limed [[twig]], for [[catching]] birds, Ar.<br /><b class="num">4.</b> a [[spear]]-[[staff]] or [[shaft]], Xen.<br /><b class="num">5.</b> a [[staff]] of [[office]], like the earlier [[σκῆπτρον]], Pind.<br /><b class="num">6.</b> the [[wand]] borne by the [[ῥαψῳδός]]; [[hence]], κατὰ ῥάβδον ἐπέων according to the [[measure]] of his ([[Homer]]'s) verses, Pind.<br /><b class="num">7.</b> a rod for [[chastisement]], Plat.; αἱ ῥάβδοι the fasces of the Roman lictors, Plut.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> a [[stripe]] or [[strip]], Il.