"By slaughtering the draft-animals, in this way they endured the difficulty."[1] Meaning using them for food.
*ko/ptontes: ta\ u(pozu/gia ko/ptontes ou(/tw th=| a)pori/a| a)ntei=xon. a)nti\ tou= xrw/menoi tou/tois pro\s e)dwdh/n.
The headword, presumably extracted from the quotation given, is present participle, masculine nominative plural, of
ko/ptw (
kappa 2062).
[1] Gaisford suggested that this is an approximation, or paraphrase, of
Xenophon,
Anabasis 2.1.6 (web address 1): "the troops provided themselves with food as best they could, by slaughtering oxen and asses of the baggage train".
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