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σκόλοψ , οπος, ὁ,
A.anything pointed: esp. pale, stake, “κεφαλὴν πῆξαι ἀνὰ σκολόπεσσι” Il.18.177; for impaling, E.IT1430, El.898; “ἐπὶ σκόλοψι ἀναρτᾶσθαι” D.S.33.15: pl. σκόλοπες, palisade, “τείχεα . . σκολόπεσσιν ἀρηρότα” Od.7.45; freq. in Il., “ἐν δὲ [τάφρῳ] σκόλοπας κατέπηξαν” 7.441; “διά τε σκόλοπας καὶ τάφρον ἔβησαν” 8.343, cf. 12.63, 15.344; “σκόλοπας περὶ τὸ ἕρκος κατέπηξαν” Hdt.9.97, cf. E.Rh.116, X. An.5.2.5 (Att. usually σταύρωμα).
2. thorn, IG42(1).121.92 (Epid., iv B.C.), LXX Nu.33.55, al., Dsc.4.49, Babr.122; “σκόλοπες φοίνικος” PMag.Osl.1.270, al., cf. 2 Ep.Cor.12.7.
3. an instrument for operating on the urethra, Heliod. ap. Orib.50.9.4.
4. point of a fishing-hook, Luc.Merc.Cond.3.
II. tree, E.Ba.983 (lyr.).
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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