Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Pedum

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

PEDUM (κορύνη, λαγωβόλον). A shepherd's crook, for catching sheep and goats by the leg; always represented, in works of art, as a simple stick bent into a curve at one end, like the annexed example (Pedum/1.1), from a Pompeian painting, where it is carried by Paris, the Phrygian shepherd; and in this form it is ascribed by poets and artists to the pastoral deities, Pan, the Fauns, and the Satyrs, and to the Muse who presided over pastoral or comic poetry, Thalia. (Festus, s. v. Virg. Ecl. v. 88. Serv. ad l.) An implement of the same description, but rather shorter and stouter, was also employed by the ancient sportsmen and rustics as a throw-stick for casting at hares (Theocr. Id. iv. 49. vii. 129.), from which practice it received the last of the two Greek names bracketed above; and consequently in works of art it is appropriately given in that form to the Centaurs, who are often represented with a dead hare in one hand and a short pedum in the other, to denote the fondness which that race was supposed to cherish for the sport of hunting.

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  Pedum/1.1