scopus

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

scŏpus, i, m., = σκοπός,

a goal , target : in pueri procul stantis, praebentisque pro scopo dispansam dextrae manūs palmam, sagittas direxit, Suet. Dom. 19 (dub.; Roth, scopulo; cf. σκοπός, in trop. sense, Cic. Att. 8, 11, 2).