scopelismos

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

scŏpĕlismos, i, m., also written as Gr. σκοπελισμός,

a crime said to be practised in Arabia , where a man places stones in his enemy's field , as a threat that whoever shall dare cultivate it shall be slain : quae res tantum timorem habet, ut nemo ad eum agrum accedere audeat, crudelitatem timens eorum qui scopelismon fecerunt, Dig. 47, 11, 9.