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horridulus

standing up

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Where it lives

Orator 1 · 0.54/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k
Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

horrĭdŭlus — Lewis & Short

horrĭdŭlus, a, um,

I adj. dim. [horridus], standing up, projecting forth, protuberant; rough, rugged, rude.

I Lit.: papillae, Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 66: caput ungunt horridulum, Lucil. ap. Non. 423, 1: puer, Mart. 10, 98, 9: comes, shabby, poor, Pers. 1, 54. —

II Trop., of discourse or style, rude, rough, unpolished, simple, unadorned: tua illa horridula mihi atque incomta visa sunt, Cic. Att. 2, 1, 1: orationes Catonis, id. Or. 45, 152: horridula ejus verba et rudia flosculos Tullianos appellans, Amm. 29, 1, 11.

In the wild

horridula Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 29.1.11
horridula Cicero, Letters to Atticus 2.1.1
horridulos Martial, Epigrammata 10.98.9
horridulae Cicero, Orator 152

Where it came from

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