rhabdos

“Glare in the Oxford Latin Dictionary records the word rhabdos ~i, f.”

Archive 2006-06-01

“_ It was the custom in Greece for a reciter to hold in his hand a wand or [Greek: rhabdos].”

The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura

“Before you can cultivate land you must clear it; and the characteristic weapon of Hephæstus, -- which is as much his attribute as the trident is of Poseidon, and the rhabdos of Hermes, is not, as you would have expected, the hammer, but the clearing-axe -- the doubled-edged”

The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing

“Before you can cultivate land, you must clear it; and the characteristic weapon of Hephæstus, -- which is as much his attribute as the trident is of Poseidon, and the rhabdos of Hermes, is not, as you would have expected, the hammer, but the clearing-ax -- the double-edged”

Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870

“Some think it signifies a blow with a rod or wand, from rhabdos, or with the staff which was the badge of his office.”

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)

“(_rhabdos_) of willow: this they hold horizontally; and by the bending of the rod towards the ground they discover the favorable places for sinking wells; a matter of considerable importance in a province so ill-watered as the northern district of Somersetshire, &c.”

Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers

“Our Translators have only rendered rhabdos by ` sceptre 'on a single occasion in the New Testament (Heb. i.”

Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia.