Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Scopae

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

SCO'PAE (κάλλυντρον, σάρωθρον). In the singular means a thin twig; but the word is rarely used except in the plural, when it signifies a birch broom (Cato, R. R. 152. Plaut. Stich. ii. 3. 27.), made up from a number of twigs, like our own. See the woodcut at p. 55, which exhibits an Egyptian at the edge of a treshing-floor with such a broom in his hands.