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ῥόπα^λον , τό,
A.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.HG7.5.20; “ῥόπαλα ξύλων τετυλωμένα σιδήρῳ” Hdt.7.63; a hunter's staff, X.Cyn.6.11,17: as votive offering, SIG1106.124 (Cos, iv/iii B.C.): metaph., “Πειθόλαος τὴν Πάραλον ῥ. τοῦ δήμου ἐκάλει” Arist.Rh.1411a13.
II. membrum virile, APl.4.261 (Leon.).
III. v.l. for ῥόπτρον 111, X.HG6.4.36.
IV. = νυμφαία, Plin.HN25.75.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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