staff
staff
subs.
Ar. and P. ῥάβδος, ἡ, βακτηρία, ἡ, V. βάκτρον, τό, σκῆπτρον, τό, Ar. σκί̄πων, ὁ, βακτήριον, τό, met.: see support.
The staff (of a general): use P. οἱ περί (στρατηγόν).
subs.
Ar. and P. ῥάβδος, ἡ, βακτηρία, ἡ, V. βάκτρον, τό, σκῆπτρον, τό, Ar. σκί̄πων, ὁ, βακτήριον, τό, met.: see support.
The staff (of a general): use P. οἱ περί (στρατηγόν).
STAFF
A stick used for support baculum more rarely baculus (a walking-stick for use): scipio (for ornament; staff of office): fustis (for striking blows): sceptrum (a sceptre): pedum (shepherd’s staff).
Figuratively Property Vid:
In military language a number of officers acting together legati tribunique (after Caes. B.G. 4 23): praetorium (Caes. Liv.). A staff-officer tribunus militum (colonel): legatus (general): legati tribunique militum (the staff-officers).
A stick used for support baculum more rarely baculus (a walking-stick for use): scipio (for ornament; staff of office): fustis (for striking blows): sceptrum (a sceptre): pedum (shepherd’s staff).
Figuratively Property Vid:
In military language a number of officers acting together legati tribunique (after Caes. B.G. 4 23): praetorium (Caes. Liv.). A staff-officer tribunus militum (colonel): legatus (general): legati tribunique militum (the staff-officers).
staff:
I. A stick carried in the hand, usu. for support:
1. băcŭlum, less freq. băcŭlus: to lean upon a s., baculo incumbere, Ov. F. 1, 177: Liv. Used in describing the augural s. (lituus): Liv. 1, 18. Dimin. bacillum (a little s.), Cic.: Juv.
2. scīpio, ōnis, m. (a s. carried by persons of distinction): an ivory s., s. eburneus, Liv. 5, 41, fin. (carried by M. Papirius, who had obtained a triumph): Val. Max. 4, 4, 5.
3. fustis, is, m. (esp. for beating with): v.CUDGEL .
II. Fig.: support: cŏlŭmen, fulcīmentum, sustentāculum: v.PROP .
III. Collectively, the officers attached to the commander-in-chief, *qui circa ducem (imperatorem) curant, officio praesunt. (Kr. s. v. Generalstab, gives primi exercitus duces: delecti ordinum militarium: but these exprr. do not at all expr. the Eng.)
IV. Also collectively, a body of persons exercising office together: Phr.: an excellent s. of writers, *scriptores et ipsi optimi et quorum bene inter se cohaerent partes.
I. A stick carried in the hand, usu. for support:
1. băcŭlum, less freq. băcŭlus: to lean upon a s., baculo incumbere, Ov. F. 1, 177: Liv. Used in describing the augural s. (lituus): Liv. 1, 18. Dimin. bacillum (a little s.), Cic.: Juv.
2. scīpio, ōnis, m. (a s. carried by persons of distinction): an ivory s., s. eburneus, Liv. 5, 41, fin. (carried by M. Papirius, who had obtained a triumph): Val. Max. 4, 4, 5.
3. fustis, is, m. (esp. for beating with): v.
II. Fig.: support: cŏlŭmen, fulcīmentum, sustentāculum: v.
III. Collectively, the officers attached to the commander-in-chief, *qui circa ducem (imperatorem) curant, officio praesunt. (Kr. s. v. Generalstab, gives primi exercitus duces: delecti ordinum militarium: but these exprr. do not at all expr. the Eng.)
IV. Also collectively, a body of persons exercising office together: Phr.: an excellent s. of writers, *scriptores et ipsi optimi et quorum bene inter se cohaerent partes.
hasta
a staff, rod, pole
radius
a staff, rod; ray, beam
regula
a straight stick, bar, staff
fustis
a knobbed stick, cudgel, staff, club
thyrsus
Of a plant, a stalk, stem. Esp., a staff twined with ivy and vine, Bacchic staff, thyrsus
ferula
a reed, whip, rod, ferule, staff
a stick, staff, walking-stick
pertica
a pole, long staff
rudis2
a slender stick, staff for exercise in fighting, quarter-staff, foil
scipio
a staff, walkingstick
talea
a slender staff, rod, stick, stake, bar
a staff, rod, pole
radius
a staff, rod; ray, beam
regula
a straight stick, bar, staff
fustis
a knobbed stick, cudgel, staff, club
thyrsus
Of a plant, a stalk, stem. Esp., a staff twined with ivy and vine, Bacchic staff, thyrsus
ferula
a reed, whip, rod, ferule, staff
appearing fewer than 50 times
baculuma stick, staff, walking-stick
pertica
a pole, long staff
rudis2
a slender stick, staff for exercise in fighting, quarter-staff, foil
scipio
a staff, walkingstick
talea
a slender staff, rod, stick, stake, bar
staff
Staff
- of cornelwood given by Athena to Tiresias: Apollod. 3.6.7
Staff
See baculum; sceptrum; scipio.