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σκηπτοῦχος

skeptouchos

bearing a staff, baton

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Where it lives

Iphigenia in Tauris 1 · 1.21/10k
Cyropaedia 6 · 0.76/10k
Odyssey 5 · 0.58/10k
Anabasis 2 · 0.36/10k
Iliad 3 · 0.27/10k

What it meant

σκηπτοῦχος · skēptouchos — LSJ

bearing a staff, baton, sceptre, sceptred

bearing a staff, baton, or sceptre as the badge of command, σ. βασιλεύς a sceptred king, Il. 2.86, Od. 2.231, etc.; ὅς τις σ. εἴη Il. 14.93: c. gen., θεῶν σ., of Aphrodite, Orph. H. 55.11; [Ἄρης] ἠνορέης σ. h.Mart. 6.

2 wand-bearer, beadles

Subst., wand-bearer, a great officer in the Persian court, generally a eunuch, ἢ τύραννος ἢ σ. Semon. 7.69, cf. X. Cyr. 7.3.15, 8.1.38, 8.3.15, An. 1.6.11; of Scythian princelings, IPE 12.32A42 (Olbia, iii B.C.); later, of beadles at Ephesus, BMus.Inscr. 4.481*.300, Ephes. 4(1) No.4.

In the wild

σκηπτοῦχον · skēptouchon Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris (DIORISIS sentence 84)
σκηπτοῦχος · skēptouchos Iliad 1.279
σκηπτοῦχός · skēptouchos Iliad 14.93
σκηπτοῦχοι · skēptouchoi Iliad 2.86
σκηπτοῦχος · skēptouchos Odyssey 2.231
σκηπτούχων · skēptouchōn Odyssey 4.64

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Where it came from

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