β50Βάκτρον
staff
[Meaning] rod/stick. "[Lysimachus] who has now exchanged his panoply for the staff of an old man." It is also called skepanion ["little rod"]. "Instead of a plectrum, I [Eumolpus] support my trembling hands with a…
Βάκτρον· ῥάβδος. γηραλέον νῦν ἀντὶ πανοπλίης βάκτρον ἀμειψάμενος. λέγεται καὶ σκηπάνιον. ἀντὶ δὲ πλήκτρου, σκηπανίῳ τρομερὰς χεῖρας ἐρεισάμεθα.