κόπ-ος, ὁ,
(κόπτω) striking, beating, ὀξύχειρι σὺν κόπῳ (Pauw for κτύπῳ) [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 23 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; στέρνων κόπους (Seidler for κτύπους) [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 794 (_anapaest meter_)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ={κοπανισμός}, [[ 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus ] Refs 5th c.AD+]
__II toil and trouble, suffering, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 210 (_plural_); ἀνδροδάϊκτος κόπος [prev. author] “fragment” 132a p. 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1265 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; pain of a disease, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 880 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κόπους παρέχειν τινί to give trouble, [[NT.Matt.26.10, +others, “PTeb.” 21.10 (2nd c.BC), “BGU” 844.10 (1st c.AD)] NT+2nd c.BC+]; κόπον ἔχειν [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Mus.” p.62 K.; πάντα κ. ἀναδεξάμενος “SIG” 761 B 6 (Delph., 1st c.BC). ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__II.2 fatigue, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀρχαίης ἰητρικῇς” 21, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.190] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κόπου ὕπο from very weariness, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 634; κόπῳ παρεῖμαι [prev. author] “Ph.” 852 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κόπῳ δαμέντες, ἁλίσκεσθαι, [[ [prev. author] “Rh.” 764, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.40; τῷ κ. ξυνεῖναι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 321; τὰ γόνατα κ. ἕλοι μου [prev. author] “Lys.” 542: in _plural_, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 124; κόποι καὶ ὕπνοι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 537b, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 4.2, NT.2Cor.6.5, etc.] NT+5th c.BC+]; περὶ κόπων title of work by [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus ] Refs 4th c.BC+]