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κοπίς (B), ίδος, ἡ, (κόπτω)
A.chopper, cleaver, Hermipp.46 (anap.), Ar. Fr.138, S.Fr.894, D.S.12.24, etc.; νερτέρων κ., prob. for κόνις, S.Ant. 602 (lyr.); broad curued knife, used by the Thessalians, E.El.837; by Orientals, X.Cyr.2.1.9, 6.2.10: as Adj., “κ. μάχαιρα” E.Cyc.241: metaph., of Phocion, ἡ τῶν ἐμῶν λόγων κ. D.ap.Plu.Phoc.5.
2. (parox.) κέντροιο κ. sting of a scorpion, Nic.Th.780; cf. κόπιες: κέντρα ὀρνίθ<ε>ια, Hsch.
II. among the Lacedaemonians, feast given on certain festivals to strangers, Cratin.164, Eup.138, Philyll.16.
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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    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 12.24
    • Euripides, Cyclops, 241
    • Euripides, Electra, 837
    • Sophocles, Antigone, 602
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 2.1.9
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