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κόπ-ος , ὁ, (κόπτω)
A.striking, beating, ὀξύχειρι σὺν κόπῳ (Pauw for κτύπῳ) A.Ch.23 (lyr.); στέρνων κόπους (Seidler for κτύπους) E.Tr.794 (anap.); = κοπανισμός, Hsch.
II. toil and trouble, suffering, A. Supp.210 (pl.); “ἀνδροδάϊκτος κόπος” Id.Fr.132ap.Ar.Ra.1265; pain of a disease, S.Ph.880; κόπους παρέχειν τινί to give trouble, Ev.Matt.26.10, al., PTeb.21.10 (ii B. C.), BGU844.10 (i A. D.); “κόπον ἔχειν” Phld. Mus.p.62 K.; “πάντα κ. ἀναδεξάμενος” SIG761B6 (Delph., i B. C.).
2. fatigue, Hp.VM21, Gal.6.190; κόπου ὕπο from very weariness, E. Ba.634; “κόπῳ παρεῖμαι” Id.Ph.852; κόπῳ δαμέντες, ἁλίσκεσθαι, Id.Rh.764, Th.7.40; “τῷ κ. ξυνεῖναι” Ar.Pl.321; “τὰ γόνατα κ. ἕλοι μου” Id.Lys.542: in pl., E.Rh.124; “κόποι καὶ ὕπνοι” Pl.R.537b, cf. X.Eq. 4.2, 2 Ep.Cor.6.5, etc.; περὶ κόπων title of work by Thphr.
3. work, exertion, “καμάραν ἀφ᾽ ἱδίων κόπων ἐποίησεν” IG12(7).384 (Amorgos), cf. BGU884.10 (i A. D.); κόπῳ κόπον λύειν prov. in Orib.Eup. 1.2.8.
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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