scopae

scōpæ, (14) ārum, f. , ¶ 1 brins, brindilles : Cato Agr. 152 ; Pall. 3, 24, 8 ; Plin. 20, 241 ¶ 2 balai : Pl. St. 347 ; Hor. S. 2, 4, 81 ; Petr. 34, 3 ; scopas dissolvere Cic. Or. 235, [prov.] défaire les brins dʼun balai, faire une chose inutile ; [fig.] scopæ solutæ Cic. Att. 7, 13 a, 2, balai défait = homme bon à rien.

scopae , arum. f.
掃欛。帚。彗。— manuales 一把草。— solutae 無才之人。Scopas dissolvere 捕風捉影。

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scōpae ārum, f

• 2 SCAP-, twigs, a broom, besom: Viles, H.—Prov.: scopas dissolvere, to untie a broom, i. e. to make confusion: scopae solutae (of a helpless person).

SCOPAE

SCOPAEa broom (scopae virgeae, Cato, 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. Juven. 14.60; Becker-Göll, Gallus, 1.35.)

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Scopae

(κάλλυντρον). A broom; usually made of twigs or rushes bound together (scopae virgeae, Cato , R. R. 156), and also of butcher's-broom (ruscus), palms, tamarisks, and myrtle. See BeckerGöll, Gallus, i. 35.