Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Sceptuchus

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. 

SCEPTU'CHUS (σκηπτοῦχος). A high officer in the Persian court, so termed from the sceptre which he bore as a badge of office, as our own titles of "gold and silver stick," or of "black rod," have arisen from like causes. He was generally, if not always, a eunuch, though regarded as a personage of consideration, having the command over some province assigned to him; but his costume and badges are believed to be represented by the annexed figure (Sceptuchus/1.1) from one of the sculptures of Persepolis. Tac. Ann. vi. 33. Xen. Cyr. vii. 3. 17. viii. 1. 38.

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  Sceptuchus/1.1