The corpus record — Latin

scrupeus

scrupeus · adj

consisting of pointed

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Where it lives

Technopaegnion 1 · 6.73/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
De Pallio 1 · 2.92/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k

What it meant

scrūpĕus — Lewis & Short

scrūpĕus, a, um, adj.scrupus.

I Lit., consisting of pointed or sharp stones; sharp, rough, steep, rugged (poet. and rare): saxum, Enn. ap. Fest. s. v. scrupi, p. 333 Müll. (Trag. v. 139 Vahl.): spelunca, Verg. A. 6, 238: vada (undae), Sen. Agam. 556; cf. ora (Ismeni), Stat. Th. 9, 411: rupes, Ambros. Ep. 6, 13.—

II Trop., hard, severe: ille (Achilles) scrupeā scholā eruditus, Tert. Pall. 4: difficultas, Aus. Idyll. 12 praef.—Subst.: scrūpĕa, ae, f., difficulty: reicis abs te religionem: scrupeam imponas tibi? Att. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 65 M. (Trag. Rel. v. 431 Rib.).

In the wild

scrupeus Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 22.4.130
scrupea Ausonius, Technopaegnion 2.3
scrupea Vergil, Aeneid 6.238
scrupea Ausonius, Epistularum 5.3
scrupea Statius, Thebais 9.411
scrupea Appendix Vergiliana, Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 51

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Where it came from

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