I.perf. or sup.; cf.: ascendo, descendo, etc.), 3, v. a. and n. Sanscr. root skand-, to climb; cf. Gr. σκάνδαλον, σκανδάληθρον.
I. Act., to climb, mount, clamber or get up; to ascend.
A. Lit. (rare but class.): cum alii malos scandant, alii per foros cursent, etc., * Cic. Sen. 6, 17: “arcem et Capitolium,” Liv. 3, 68, 7; 4, 2 fin.; cf.: “in curru Capitolium (of a triumphal entry),” id. 45, 39: “curru Capitolia,” Luc. 9, 600: “moenia,” Liv. 22, 14 Drak. N. cr.: “muros,” id. 5, 21: “tectum scalis,” Plin. 14, 1, 2, §9: “equum,” Verg. A. 2, 401: “bracchia longa Theseae viae,” Prop. 3 (4), 21, 24. “cubile,” id. 4 (5), 4, 90: “puppim,” Val. Fl. 8, 8: “cymbam (Charontis),” Prop. 3, 18 (4, 17), 24 et saep.— “In mal. part.,” Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 22.—Poet.: “scandit fatalis machina muros,” Verg. A. 2, 237.—
B. Trop. (only in the poets and in late prose): “paulatim gradus aetatis scandere adultae,” Lucr. 2, 1123: “scandit aeratas vitiosa naves Cura,” Hor. C. 2, 16, 21.— Hence, in the grammarians: scandere versus, qs. to climb up, i. e. to measure or read by its feet, to scan; cf. in a sarcastic double sense, of a gouty person: “scandere qui nescis, versiculos laceras,” Claud. Epigr. 29, 2. —
II. Neutr., to mount, rise, arise, ascend (not freq. till after the Aug. period).
A. Lit.: “cum scandit et instat,” climbs the wall, Lucr. 3, 651: “scandenti circa ima labor est: ceterum quantum processeris, etc.,” Quint. 12, 10, 78: “scandere in aggerem,” Liv. 3, 67, 11: “in domos superas,” Ov. F. 1, 298: “in adversum,” Quint. 11, 3, 54: “ad nidum volucris (feles),” Phaedr. 2, 4, 6: “per conjuncta aedificia,” Tac. H. 3, 71: “super iteratam testudinem,” id. ib. 3, 28.—
2. Transf., of things: “scandentisque Asisi consurgit vertice murus,” Prop. 4 (5), 1, 125. “in tecta jam silvae scandunt,” Plin. 15, 14, 14, § 47: “aquae in sublime,” id. 31, 1, 1, § 2: “sol ad aquilonem,” id. 18, 28, 68, § 264.—
