I.rough, shaggy, bristly, prickly, hirsute = δασύς.
I. Lit. (class.; “syn. hirtus, pilosus, villosus): quarum (animantium) aliae villis vestitae, aliae spinis hirsutae,” Cic. N. D. 2, 47, 121; Col. 7, 2, 6: “pectus Herculis,” Prop. 4 (5), 9, 49. “crura genaeque,” Mart. 10, 65, 9: “supercilium,” Verg. E. 8, 34: “et glacialis Hiems canos hirsuta capillos,” Ov. M. 2, 30: “barba,” id. ib. 13, 766: “capilli,” id. H. 9, 63: “juba (galeae),” Prop. 4 (5), 10, 20. “vellera (leonis) setis,” Ov. F. 2, 339: “castaneae,” Verg. E. 7, 53; cf.: “frondes,” id. G. 3, 231: “vepres,” id. ib. 3, 444: “rubi,” Prop. 4 (5), 4, 28. “folia hirsutiora,” Plin. 22, 22, 33, § 75.—Poet., to designate the people of the olden time (when the hair of the head and beard was left untrimmed), like intonsus and incomptus, Sil. 13, 812; Mart. 9, 48, 2.—*
