Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Scipio

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. 

SCI'PIO (σκίπων). A staff and a sceptre; applied in the same sense as SCEPTRUM; both words being only different forms from the same Greek root σκήπτω.