Pedum
κορύνη
Pedum (κορύνη, Theoc. 7.43), a crook. The accompanying woodcut is taken from a painting found at Civita Vecchia (Ant. d'Ercolano, vol. iii. tav. 53). It shows the crook in the hand of a shepherdess. (See also woodcut to OSCILLUM.)
The crook is continually seen in works of ancient art in the hands of Pan (Sil. Ital. Pun. 13.334), and is also the usual attribute of Thalia, as the Muse of Pastoral poetry. The λαγωβόλον (Theoc. 4.49, 7.128, prob. = καλαῦροψ, Il. 23.841) was a stick thrown to collect cattle (originally to kill hares, &c.), somewhat like a boomerang
(Stephani, Compte Rendu, 1867; Fritzsche ad Theoc. l.c.).
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.