I.to make rough, to roughen (not ante-Aug.).
I. Lit.: “fauces,” Cels. 1, 3; cf.: “summam cutem,” id. 3, 27: “arterias,” Plin. 22, 23, 48, § 100: “corpus,” id. 31, 6, 34, § 67: “tussim,” id. 23, 4, 51, § 97: “faucium vitio exasperatur vox,” Quint. 11, 3, 20: “undas,” to roughen, stir up, Ov. Am. 2, 11, 27: “mare fluctibus,” Liv. 37, 12 fin. (cf. aspero).—Poet.: “aegida innumeris signis,” i. e. to adorn with raised sculptures, Claud. III. Cons. Honor. 193: “ensem saxo,” to sharpen, whet, Sil. 4, 19.—
II. Trop., to irritate, provoke, exasperate: “durati (Gallograeci) tot malis exasperatique,” made savage, Liv. 38, 17, 17: “exasperavit animos ferocia nimia Harpali,” id. 42, 14; so, “animos,” id. 28, 25; 33, 39; Cels. 3, 5 fin.; cf.: “animum hoc criminum genere,” Liv. 40, 20 fin.: “Ligures exasperati,” id. 42, 26: “majorem civitatis partem,” Val. Max. 6, 5, 3: “canes,” i. e. to incite, set on, App. M. 4, p. 143; cf. “apes,” Col. 9, 15, 4 et saep.: “rem verbis exasperavit,” exasperated, made worse, Quint. 4, 2, 75.
