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Copis

（κοπίς).

1.

A sword or scimetar, curved like a sickle and used by the Thessalians and in the East (Eurip. Electra, 837; Xen. Cyrop. ii. 1).

2.

A knife used in cutting the flesh of animals in sacrifices or in the kitchen (Plut. Lyc. 2).

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 2.1
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