The corpus record

ῥόπαλον

ropalon · τό

club, cudgel

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Where it lives

On Hunting 2 · 2.2/10k
Trachiniae 1 · 1.38/10k
Proverbia 1 · 0.9/10k
Odyssey 4 · 0.46/10k
Rhetoric 1 · 0.23/10k
Iliad 2 · 0.18/10k
Histories 3 · 0.16/10k
Hellenica 1 · 0.15/10k

What it meant — LSJ

club, cudgel, club, war-club, mace, staff

club, cudgel, used to beat an ass, Il. 11.559, 561; to walk with, Od. 17.195; club of the Cyclops, 9.319; of Heracles, S. Tr. 512 (lyr.), Ar. Ra. 47, 495; war-club or mace, shod with metal, παγχάλκεον Od. 11.575, cf. X. HG 7.5.20; ῥόπαλα ξύλων τετυλωμένα σιδήρῳ Hdt. 7.63; a hunterʼs staff, X. Cyn. 6.11, 17: as votive offering, SIG 1106.124 (Cos, iv/iii B.C.): metaph., Πειθόλαος τὴν Πάραλον ῥ. τοῦ δήμου ἐκάλει Arist. Rh. 1411a13.

II membrum virile

membrum virile, APl. 16.261 (Leon.).

III

v.l. for ῥόπτρον III, X. HG 6.4.36.

= νυμφαία, Plin. HN 25.75.

In the wild

ῥόπαλον · rhopalon Aristotle, Rhetoric 3
ῥοπάλῳ · rhopalōi Herodotus, Histories 4.103.2 (DIORISIS sentence 4721)
ῥόπαλα · rhopala Herodotus, Histories 7.63.1 (DIORISIS sentence 7473)
ῥόπαλα · rhopala Herodotus, Histories 7.69.1 (DIORISIS sentence 7501)
ῥόπαλʼ · rhopalʼ Iliad 11.559
ῥοπάλοισι · rhopaloisi Iliad 11.561

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Where it came from

Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. ῥόπαλον (scan p. 998; entry #6999).
Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. ῥόπαλον (scan p. 1635; entry #4995).

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