Sceptrum, tri, n. g. Ci. A princes scepter.Grauitas sceptri.Ouid.Aurea sceptra.Ouid. Aurata. Sen. Exitiale sceptrum tyrannis.Stat.Gemmantia sceptra.Ouid. Sublime. Claud. Regale sceptrum.Ouid. Superba sceptra. Lucr. Accipere sceptra alicunde. Vir. Sceptra loci, rerumq; capit moderamen. Ou. He taketh the rule and gouernment of the place.Eburno sceptro innixus.Ouid.Potiri sceptris. Vir. To be kings or rulers.Reponere aliquem in sceptra.Virg.To restore one to hys kingdome againe.Tenere sceptra. Vir. To be king or ruler.Transferre sceptrum aliò Sta.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
scēptrum, i (less correctly scaep-trum), n., = skh=ptron,a royal staff, a sceptre.I.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.—B.Transf.1.A teacher's rod (humorously): ferulae tristes, sceptra paedagogorum, Mart. 10, 62, 10.— 2.A name of the plant aspalathus, Plin. 12, 24, 52, 110.—3. = membrum virile, Auct. Priap. 25.—II.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.