ῥαβδ-ίον, τό,
diminutive of ῥάβδος, little rod or shoot, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 3.17.6, 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 1.14] Refs 4th c.BC+]; the wand of Hermes, [[ 2nd c.AD: Babrius Fabularum Scriptor 117.9, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 3.20.12 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; ἀπὸ ῥαβδίου οἰακίζεσθαι, of horses, [[ 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 17.3.7. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__b divining-rod, [[ LXX.Eze.21.21 (26)(codex A). ] LXX]
__2 barbel or filament appended to the lips of certain fishes, which are said ῥαβδεύεσθαι τοῖς ἐν τῷ στόματι, ἃ καλοῦσιν οἱ ἁλιεῖς ῥαβδία [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 620b32. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__3 iron stile, used in encaustic painting, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.568a, 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 15.687b. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__4 ῥαβδία ἀκοντίων perhaps javelin shafts, [[ “BCH” 35.16 (Delian inventory). ] Refs]
__5 teacher's pointer (or ={ῥάβδος} 1.7), [[ 4th c.BC: Eudemus Philosophus cited in 6th c.AD: Simplicius Philosophus “in Aristotelis Physica commentaria - Comm. in Arist. Graeca” 732.32. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II ={ἅλιμον}, Ps.-[[ 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 1.91. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]