ῥάβδουχος

A. one who carries a rod or staff of office:

1. judge, umpire at a contest, Pl. Prt. 338a.

2. magistrate's attendant, staff-bearer, beadle, Ar. Pax 734, UPZ 3.6 (ii B.C., prob.), IG 9(2).735 (Larissa, iii B.C.), 1109.24 (Coropa, ii B.C.), Act.Ap. 16.35; so, prob., in Th. 5.50: esp. at Rome, of the lictors who carried the fasces, Plb. 5.26.10, etc.: also ῥαβδοῦχοι,αἱ, female attendants on Oenanthe, mother of Agathocles, Id. 15.29.13.