SCEPTRE
Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1842 · p. 41
(Gr. <r*»jrrT{ov, a staff to lean on.) A SCHELLING, PHILOSOPHY OF. well-known emblem of sovereignty. Achilles, as is well known, swears by his staff or sceptre in the first book of the Iliad. Tarquin the elder first a umed the sceptre among the Romans. According to Justin, it was originally a spear. The sceptre of the Me roving i an kings, as represented on monuments, is a rod, probably of metal, of the height of the bearer, and slightly curved like a crosier. [s. 1099]
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