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.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.