butcher's broom (shrub); branches/sprigs tied together (pl.)
Latin word, found 28 times in the texts on Socratos.
Cicero, Letters to Atticus 7.13a.2: L. Caesarem vidi Menturnis a. d. viii Kal. Febr. mane cum absurdissimis mandatis, non hominem sed scopas solutas, ut id ipsum mihi ille videatur inridendi causa fecisse qui tantis de rebus huic mandata dederit; nis …
Horace, Carmina 4.8.6: quas aut Parrhasius protulit aut Scopas,
Horace, Sermones 2.4.81: vilibus in scopis, in mappis, in scobe quantus
All forms of scopa