ῥόπᾰλον, τό,
club, cudgel, used to beat an ass, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.559, 561 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; to walk with, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.195 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; club of the Cyclops, [[ 9.319 ] Refs]; of Heracles, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 512 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 47, 495 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; war-club or mace, shod with metal, παγχάλκεον [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.575, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 7.5.20; ῥόπαλα ξύλων τετυλωμένα σιδήρῳ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.63 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; a hunter's staff, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 6.11, 17 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: as votive offering, [[ “SIG” 1106.124 (Cos, 4th-3rd c.BC)] Refs 4th c.BC+]: metaphorically, Πειθόλαος τὴν Πάραλον ῥ. τοῦ δήμου ἐκάλει [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1411a13. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II membrum virile, [[ Anthologia Graeca Appx. 4.261 (1st c.AD: Leonidas Alexandrinus Epigrammaticus). ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__III variant for{ῥόπτρον}[[ 111, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 6.4.36. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__IV ={νυμφαία}, [[ 1st c.AD: Plinius Rerum Naturalium Scriptor “Historia Naturalis” 25.75. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]