carrying a rod, staff
carrying a rod or staff:
1 beadle, constable, lictor
= ῥαβδοῦχος 2, at Athens, a sort of beadle or constable, Sch. Ar. Pax 733 (pl.); in Egypt, PSI 4.332.11 (iii B.C.), PPetr. 3p.340 (iii B.C.), PCair.Zen. 753.73 (pl., iii B.C.); of officials at games, IG 7.3078 (Lebad., i B.C.); in the mysteries, ib. 5(1).1390.41 (Andania, i B.C.); at Rome, lictor, Plb. 10.32.2.
2 the planets
Astrol., of the planets (ἥλιος being the βασιλεύς), Sch. A.R. 4.262, cf. S.E. M. 5.31.