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Glare in the Oxford Latin Dictionary records the word rhabdos ~i, f.
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_ It was the custom in Greece for a reciter to hold in his hand a wand or [Greek: rhabdos].
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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
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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
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Some think it signifies a blow with a rod or wand, from rhabdos, or with the staff which was the badge of his office.
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(_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.
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Our Translators have only rendered rhabdos by ` sceptre 'on a single occasion in the New Testament (Heb. i.
fbharjo commented on the word rhabdos
a early form of "booting" (dos)a la bill gates ????? putting a stick to it?????? RNA:DNA implications (should leave one in stitches)
February 14, 2009
whichbe commented on the word rhabdos
"In the Odyssey, Circe changes the comrades of Odysseus into swine with her rhabdos or wand. The rhabdos was eventually personified as a demon. Rabdos, the strangler, is one of the devils listed in the Testament of Solomon, which says that he was formerly a wise man of great learning--Hermes."
-- Richard Cavendish, The Black Arts, p. 223
August 25, 2008