STAFF Copy link • STAFFA stick used for support, baculum, more rarely baculus (a walking-stick, for use): scipio (for ornament; staff of office): fustis (for striking blows): sceptrum (a sceptre): pedum (shepherd’s staff). Figuratively, Property, Vid: In military language, a number of officers acting together, legati tribunique (after Caes., B.G., 4, 23): praetorium (Caes., Liv.). A staff-officer, tribunus militum (colonel): legatus (general): legati tribunique militum (the staff-officers).