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sceptrum, the staff or baton which was a general sign of regal authority (as at Rome of consular the “scipio eburneus” of Liv.v. XLI. 9), especially when the king was acting as judge ( Virg. Aen.VII. 246, Hom. Il.I. 238), and the lifting up of which was a solemn pledge of truth, Arist. Pol.III. 14, “ὁ δ᾽ ὅρκος ἦν τοῦ σκήπτρου ἐπανάτασις” (cf. Hom. Il.X. 321). It was also borne by chiefs or by princesses, as Aeneas gives to Dido ( Aen.I. 653) a sceptrum which had belonged to Ilione, Priam's eldest daughter. Livy records the presentation of such with other gifts to Masinissa and Eumenes (xxx. XV. 11, XLII. xiv. 10). nepoti, Ascanius.
Charles Simmons. Metamorphoseon XIII. xiv. The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books XIII. and XIV. Edited, with introduction, analysis, and notes by Charles Simmons. New York. Macmillan. 1899.
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