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scruposus

scrūpōsus, a, um, adj. [scrupus].
  • Lit., full of sharp or rough stones, jagged, rough, rugged (poet. and in post-class. prose): specus, Att. ap. Non. 223, 2; cf. saxa, Luc. 5, 675; Ap. Met. 6, 31, 24; Pyrene, Grat. Cyn. 514: via, Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 82 (191): ager, Ap. Flor. 2, p. 348, 20: per asperitates scruposas, Amm.31, 8, 4.—*
  • II Trop., rough, hard, arduous: ratio, Lucr. 4, 523.

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