scope Copy link Outline I. End in view, aim1. fīnis, is, m.2. prōpŏsĭtum (what is definitely set before a writer or speaker as object)II. Room, space, field for any thing; campus, ārea, etc. • scope: I. End in view, aim: 1. fīnis, is, m.: all the arts have some fixed s., omnes artes habent finem aliquem propositum, Quint. 2, 17, 22: v. end. 2. prōpŏsĭtum (what is definitely set before a writer or speaker as object): Macr. S. S. 1, 4, init. (nunc ipsam ejusdem somnii mentem, ipsumque propositum, quem Graeci σκοπὸν vocant, tentemus aperire,--which passage proves that scopus, freely used as it has been by Latinists, was in the 4th century unknown): v. object. II. Room, space, field for any thing; campus, ārea, etc.: v. field (III.).