βακτηρ-ία, ἡ,
staff, cane, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 682, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.84, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 24.12, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 11.4, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; συκίνη β., ={σ. ἐπικουρία} (which see), [[ 4th c.AD: Alciphro Epistolographus 1.39, 15th c.AD: Macarius Paroemiographus 7.83. ] Refs 4th c.AD+]
__II wand, as a badge of office, carried by δικασταί, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.210; ὁ λαβὼν τὴν β. βαδίζει εἰς τὸ δικαστήριον τὸ ὁμόχρων τῇ β. 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 65.2 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]. (Cf. Latin baculum, imbēcillus, OIr. bacc 'crook, curved stick'.)