scēptrum | scaep-trum (noun N) = σκῆπτρον,: (less correctly )
* A royal staff, a sceptre.
* Lit.: (rex Ptolemaeus) sedens cum purpurā et sceptro et illis insignibus regiis,Cic. Sest. 26, 57; Quint. 9, 3, 57; 11, 3, 158; Suet. Aug. 94: Augusti,id. Galb. 1; Verg. A. 7, 247: dextrā sceptrum gerebat,id. ib. 12, 206; Ov. M. 7, 103; 1, 178; 2, 847; 5, 422. Also borne by a king's daughter,Verg. A. 1, 653 Heyne: exitiale,Stat. Th. 1, 34; of a triumphant general,Liv. 5, 41; Juv. 10, 43.—Poet., in the plur., by way of amplification, of a single sceptre, Cic. poët. Div. 1, 12, 21; cf.: celsā sedet Aeolus arce Sceptra tenens,Verg. A. 1, 57; and of Juno,Ov. M. 3, 265; 1, 596; 11, 560; Verg. A. 7, 173; 7, 252 al.
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* Trop., as a symbol of authority, also used by the poets, in the plur., for kingdom, rule, dominion, authority: en impero Argis, sceptra mihi liquit Pelops, Poët. ap. Quint. 9, 4, 140: tu mihi quodcumque hoc regni, tu sceptra Jovemque Concilias,Verg. A. 1, 78: sic nos in sceptra reponis?id. ib. 1, 253; 7, 422; 9, 9: pulsus solio sceptrisque paternis,id. ib. 10, 852: sceptra Asiae tenere,Ov. H. 16, 175: potiri perenni sceptro,id. M. 15, 585; id. F. 4, 198; id. M. 6, 677: Heliconiadum comites, quorum unus Homerus Sceptra potitus, etc.,Lucr. 3, 1038.
* A name of the plant aspalathus, Plin. 12, 24, 52, § 110.
* = membrum virile, Auct. Priap. 25.