scalae

scālae, ārum, f. (aus *scand-sla zu scando), I) die Stiege, Leiter, Treppe, scalarum gradus alios tollere, alios incīdere, Caecin. b. Cic. – scalas in occulto comparare, Liv.: scalas ferre, Liv.: scalas admovere (muris od. moenibus), Caes. u. Tac.: scalas applicare moenibus, Curt.: scalas erigere ad murum od. moenia, Liv.: muros scalis aggredi, Sall.: positis scalis muros ascendere, Caes.: scalis integros muros transcendere, Liv. – in scalis latuit, Hor.: se in scalas tabernae librariae conicere, Cic.: se in scalarum tenebras abdere, Cic. – scalis devolvi, die Tr. herabstürzen, Scrib. u. Curt.: per scalas complicitis pedibus in superius cenaculum attrahi, Apul. – scalis habito tribus, ich wohne drei Treppen hoch, d.i. in einem Dachstübchen (wo nur Arme wohnen), Mart. 1, 117, 7. – Der Sing. scala wird von den alten Grammatikern (wie Varro LL. 9, 68 u. 69. Quint. 1, 5, 16) verworfen, doch findet er sich Cels. 8, 15. p. 356, 15 D. (wo scala gallinaria). Gaius dig. 47, 2, 56. § 4. Hyg. fab. 125. Vulg. genes. 28, 12 u. 13. Isid. orig. 7, 8, 34. Schol. Iuven. 3, 200: confragosi scalae gradus, Sulp. Sev. vit. S. Mart. 19, 4: von der Himmelsleiter Jakobs im Traume, Cypr. test. 2, 16. Hieron. epist. 3, 4 u. 188, 13. – u. bildl. scala, wie κλιμαξ, als rhet. Fig., die Steigerung im Ausdrucke, Aquil. Rom. de fig. sent. § 40 in. (von Augustin. conf. 4, 7, 11 in dieser Bedeutung für ungebräuchlich erklärt). – II) meton., die Stufen einer Treppe (gradus), prima, Schol. Iuven. 3, 200: haec per ducentas cum domum tulit scalas, Mart. 7, 20, 20.

1 scālæ, (10) ārum, f. (scando), ¶ 1 échelle : Cæs. G. 5, 43, 3 ; C. 3, 63, 6 ¶ 2 degrés [dʼescalier] : Mart. 7, 20, 20 || escalier : Cic. Mil. 40 ; Phil. 2, 21 || étage : scalis habĭtare tribus Mart. 1, 117, 7, habiter au troisième étage = dans un galetas.

scalae , arum. f.
梯。臺階。階級。Scalas admovere 用數梯子。

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scālae ārum, f

• SCAND-, a flight of steps, stairs, staircase, ladder, scaling-ladder: murum scalis adgredi, S.: in scalis latuit, H.: scalas ponere, fix, Cs.: re in scalarum tenebris abdere, of the staircase.

SCALAE

SCALAE(κλῖμαξ).

1. A ladder. These, whether scaling-ladders or ladders for other purposes, had nothing in their construction which calls for comment.

2 (ἀναβαθμοί). The staircase of a house [cf. DOMUSVol. I. pp. 663 b, 665 b ]. The stairs in ordinary houses were like ladders, except that they had flat steps instead of rungs: they sometimes led directly into the street (Liv. 39.14). Scalae graecae differed from these ladder staircases in having the under side of the step enclosed, so that. the feet of a person going up them would not be visible from below. The Flaminica was not allowed to ascend a high flight of stairs unless they were of this construction (Gell. 10.15; Serv. ad Aen. 4.646). Compare Becker-Göll, Gallus, 2.223; Nissen, Pompeii, 602.

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Scalae

(κλῖμαξ). (1) A ladder or any contrivance for making an ascent. The usual form of ancient ladder was identical with our own, as shown in the annexed illustration.

(2) A ship's ladder, let down the side of a vessel, as shown below.

(3) The staircase in a house, usually constructed like our own (Livy, xxxix. 14). Sometimes they were enclosed by side-walls, so that the person using the stair was concealed. These were called “Greek stairs” (scalae Graecae, Vitruv. ix. 7), and were often used as hiding-places (Cic. Mil. 15; Hor. Epist. iii. 15).

(4) In very late Latin, the word is used of stirrups.