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tesca

tesca · n

rough

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Where it lives

Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k

What it meant

tesca — Lewis & Short

tesca (tesqua), ōrum (the n.,

sing. v. in foll.),

I rough or wild regions, wastes, deserts: tesqua sive tescua kata/krhmnoi kai\ r(a/xeis kai\ e)/rhmoi to/poi, Gloss. Philox.: deserta et tesca loca, Att. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 11 Müll.; v. Varr. in loc.: loca aspera, saxea tesca tuor, Cic. poët. ap. Fest. pp. 356 and 357 Müll.; so, deserta et inhospita tesca, Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 19: nemorosa, Luc. 6, 41: remota, App. Flor. p. 358, 22; cf. id. ib. p. 348, 22. Such places were sacred to the gods: loca quaedam agrestia, quae alicujus dei sunt, dicuntur tesca, Varr. l. l.—Sing.: templum tescumque finito in sinistrum, an old religious formula, Varr. l. l.; cf. Fest. l. l.

In the wild

tesca Statius, Silvae 2.3.14

Where it came from

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