Note 236 — Chapter XVIII
L. Dora Schmitz translation
A handle such as this, or as that shown at p. 260 (No. 174), seems well suited for the long leaning-staff (σκῆπτρον, from σκήπτομαι, “to lean upon”) which, in Homer, is the symbol of royal authority, and with which Ulysses beat Thersites. (Iliad, II. 46, 265, et passim.)—[Ed.]