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Latin ''acopum'' or ''acopon'', (sc. ''medicamentum'' or ''unguentum''), means i.a. "a soothing salve" (Lewis & Short) or restorative ointment. It is adopted from Greek ἄκοπον /ákopon/ {sc. φάρμακον /phármakon/} meaning "application (of various kinds) for relief of pain, etc." (LSJ). ἄκοπον /ákopon/ is the neuter form of the adjective ἄκοπος /ákopos/, which Simon correctly analyses as consisting of  ἀ- /a-/ ("un-, non-") + κόπος /kópos/  {i.a. "striking, beating, toil, exertion, suffering, pain"}, resulting in meanings like "without trouble, pain; refreshing; unbruised, whole".  
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Latin ''acopum'' or ''acopon'', (sc. ''medicamentum'' or ''unguentum''), means i.a. "a soothing salve" (Lewis & Short, 1879) or restorative ointment. It is adopted from Greek ἄκοπον /ákopon/ {sc. φάρμακον /phármakon/} meaning "application (of various kinds) for relief of pain, etc." (LSJ). ἄκοπον /ákopon/ is the neuter form of the adjective ἄκοπος /ákopos/, which Simon correctly analyses as consisting of  ἀ- /a-/ ("un-, non-") + κόπος /kópos/  {i.a. "striking, beating, toil, exertion, suffering, pain"}, resulting in meanings like "without trouble, pain; refreshing; unbruised, whole".  
    
ἄκοπος /ákopos/ is also used in Ancient Greek as the name for a certain plant, see [[Anagiros]]; adopted into Latin as ''acopus'' or ''acopos'' it denotes that plant and also a certain stone.  
 
ἄκοπος /ákopos/ is also used in Ancient Greek as the name for a certain plant, see [[Anagiros]]; adopted into Latin as ''acopus'' or ''acopos'' it denotes that plant and also a certain stone.  
 
This medical term is found in Greek medical literature in the works e.g. of Dioscorides and Galen, and in the Latin literature e.g. in Celsus, Pliny, Marcellus Empiricus, Scribonius Largus and Caelius Aurelianus.  
 
This medical term is found in Greek medical literature in the works e.g. of Dioscorides and Galen, and in the Latin literature e.g. in Celsus, Pliny, Marcellus Empiricus, Scribonius Largus and Caelius Aurelianus.