I. Lit., full of dust, dusty: “via,” Cic. Att. 5, 14, 1: “aestas,” Verg. G. 1, 66: “femina,” Prop. 3, 14 (4, 13), 7: “amnis,” Ov. Am. 3, 6, 96; hence, also: Ceres, covered with dust in summer, Lucr. 5, 742: “agmina,” Verg. A. 4, 154.—
II. Trop., attended with labor: “praemia militiae,” i. e. toilsome, Ov. Am. 1, 15, 4: “virtus,” Sen. Vit. Beat. 7, 3.