The corpus record

σκοπ-ή

skope · ἡ

lookout-place, watch-tower

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Where it lives

Second Olynthiac 1 · 4.89/10k
Galatians 1 · 4.58/10k
Suppliant Maidens 2 · 4.15/10k
On the Navy-Boards 1 · 3.89/10k
First Philippic 1 · 3.05/10k
The Erotic Essay 1 · 2.73/10k
Electra 2 · 2.65/10k
Agamemnon 2 · 2.47/10k
Cyropaedia 19 · 2.41/10k
Third Philippic 1 · 2.35/10k
Phaedo 4 · 1.83/10k
On the Cavalry Commander 1 · 1.74/10k

Densest 12 of 37 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

σκοπ-ή · skop-ē — LSJ

lookout-place, watch-tower, observatory

= σκοπιά, lookout-place, watch-tower, A. Supp. 713: pl., Id. Ag. 289, 309, X. Cyr. 3.2.11, etc.; observatory, Str. 2.5.14, 17.1.30; = θυννοσκοπεῖον, σ. δαμοσία SIG 1000.10 (Cos, ii B.C.).

II look-out, watch

look-out, watch, πατρὸς σκοπαί A. Supp. 786 (lyr.), cf. Lyc. 1311; σκοπὰς ποιεῖσθαι ἀπὸ δένδρων D.S. 3.26, cf. Luc. Hist.Conscr. 29.

In the wild

σκοπαῖς · skopais Aeschylus, Agamemnon 284–289
σκοπάς · skopas Aeschylus, Agamemnon 308–309
σκοπαὶ · skopai Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 786
σκοπῆς · skopēs Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 713
σκοπῶν · skopōn Aristophanes, Knights (DIORISIS sentence 242)
σκοπῶν · skopōn Demosthenes, Against Aristocrates 193 (DIORISIS sentence 672)

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Where it came from

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