With silver studs, and took into his hand
The ancestral sceptre, old but undecayed.—Bryant.
[103]. Iliad ii. 101–108.
He held
The sceptre; Vulcan’s skill had fashioned it,
And Vulcan gave it to Saturnian Jove,
And Jove bestowed it on his messenger,
The Argus-queller Hermes. He in turn
Gave it to Pelops, great in horsemanship;
And Pelops passed the gift to Atreus next,