I. Lit., full of sharp or rough stones, jagged, rough, rugged (poet. and in post-class. prose): specus, Att. ap. Non. 223, 2; cf. “saxa,” Luc. 5, 675; App. M. 6, p. 187, 6: “Pyrene,” Grat. Cyn. 514: “via,” Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 82: “ager,” App. Flor. 2, p. 348, 20: “per asperitates scruposas,” Amm. 31, 8, 4.—*
II. Trop., rough, hard, arduous: “ratio,” Lucr. 4, 523.