σκοπ-ιά,
Ionic dialect σκοπ-ιή, ἡ, lookout-place, in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+] especially a hill-top, σκοπιὴν εἰς παιπαλόεσσαν [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.97; ἀπὸ σκοπιῆς εἶδεν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.275, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.524; ἥμενος ἐν σκοπιῇ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.771 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὀπτῆρας δὲ κατὰ σκοπιὰς ὤτρυνα νέεσθαι each to his lookout-place, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.261 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἄγγελος.. ἀπὸ τηλαυγέος φαινόμενος σ. [[ 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 550 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; watch-tower, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.15; ὥσπερ ἀπὸ σ. μοι φαίνεται 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 445c. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 peak, height, of Cithaeron, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 130 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of Athos, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 237 (_anapaest meter_)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Ἰλιὰς σ., of the Trojan acropolis, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 931 (Lyric poetry), compare “Ph.” 233 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 281 (Lyric poetry), etc.; Θάσου σκοπιαί “JHS” 29.93: _metaphorically_, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 9.47:—σκοπιαί personified as women (from Oreads), 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Philostrati majoris imagines” 2.4. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II look-out, watch, σκοπιὴν ἔχειν to keep watch, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.302; οὔ κῃ πρόσω σ. ἔχοντες τούτων 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.13 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; κρυπταὶ σ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitum magistro” 4.10; σκοπιὴν φυλάσσειν 4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 883. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]