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scabo

to scratch

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Where it lives

Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
Naturalis Historia 8 · 0.2/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
De Medicina 1 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

scăbo — Lewis & Short

scăbo, scābi (no

I sup.), 3, v. a. root skap-, skamp; Gr. ska/ptw, to dig; ka/petos, ditch; Lat. scaber, scabies, to scratch, to scrape (syn. rado): caput, Lucil. ap. Non. 472, 6; Hor. S. 1, 10, 71: scaberat ut porcus contritis arbore costis, Lucil. ap. Prisc. p. 884 P.: aures pedibus posterioribus, Plin. 11, 48, 108, § 260: se, id. 8, 27, 41, § 99; 10, 74, 95, § 204: tellurem, id. 10, 71, 91, § 196: laminas (doliorum), id. 18, 26, 64, § 236.—Prov.: mutuum scabere, i. e. to praise one another, Symm. Ep. 1, 31 init.; Ennod. Ep. 1, 10.

In the wild

scabere Celsus, De Medicina 2.7.p1
scabendi Apuleius, Metamorphoses 6.28
scabendum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.37.p3
scabendi Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 10.74.p2
scaberet Horace, Satyrarum libri 1.10.71
scabendi Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 30.14.p1

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Where it came from

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