I.full of rocks or stones, rocky, stony: “montes,” Verg. G. 2, 111: “valles,” id. E. 5, 84: “loca,” Col. Arb. 21, 1: “mare,” id. ib. 8, 16, 8: “Hypanis,” Verg. G. 4, 370: “Euphrates,” Plin. 5, 24, 20, § 84: “frutex,” growing among stones, id. 15, 7, 7: “Phlegethon saxosa incendia torquet,” Sil. 13, 565.—As subst.: saxōsa , ōrum, n., rocky or stony places: “piscium genera alia planis gaudent, alia saxosis,” Quint. 5, 10, 21 (cf.: “saxatiles pisces, under saxatilis): herba in saxosis nascens,” Plin. 21, 29, 103, § 175.
saxōsus (collat. form saxŭōsus , Sicul. Fl. p. 11 Goes.), a, um, adj. saxum,