SCOPAE
SCOPAE a broom (
scopae virgeae,
Cato,
Cat. Agr. 156: cf. Hor.
Sat. 2.4, 81). These brooms were made commonly of
the “wild myrtle” or butcher's broom (
ρυσξυς) and of the tamarisk (
Plin. Nat. 23.166, 16.108), but also of myrtle (
Eur. Ion 121), and in richer houses. at Rome of
palm-twigs. (Hor.
Sat. 2.4, 83;
Mart. 14.82; cf.
Juv.
14.60; Becker-Göll,
Gallus,
1.35.)
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