LOGOI

The corpus record — Latin

scŏpus

scŏpus · m

a goal

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What it meant

1. scŏpus — Lewis & Short

scŏpus, i, m., = skopo/s,

I a goal, target: in pueri procul stantis, praebentisque pro scopo dispansam dextrae manūs palmam, sagittas direxit, Suet. Dom. 19 (dub.; Roth, scopulo; cf. skopo/s, in trop. sense, Cic. Att. 8, 11, 2).

2. scopus — Walde–Hofmann

scopus, -à m. „Ziel“ (seit Rhet. min): Lw. aus gr. axoróc ds. — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. scopus, p. 1403]

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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