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squālĕo , ŭi, 2, v. n. squalor,
I.to be stiff or rough with any thing, etc. (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; cf. sordeo).
I. Lit.
A. In gen.: “squalentes infode conchas,” i. e. rough, Verg. G. 2, 348: “per tunicam squalentem auro,id. A. 10, 314; cf.: “auro squalens lorica,id. ib. 12, 87: “maculis auro squalentibus,id. G. 4, 91; Sil. 2, 585: “picti squalentia terga lacerti,Verg. G. 4, 13: squalentia tela venenis, Ov. F. 5, 397.—
B. In partic.
1. To be stiff or rough from dryness or drought, to be dry, parched: “squalebant pulvere fauces,Luc. 9, 503: “oraque projecta squalent arentia linguā,id. 4, 755: “tellus squalet,Sil. 14, 592.—Hence,
(β). Of lands, etc., to be desert, untilled, waste: “squalentes campi,Sil. 3, 655; 4, 376: “squalens litus,Tac. A. 15, 42: “squalentia arva Libyes,Luc. 1, 205; 5, 39: “sterilis profundi vastitas squalet soli,Sen. Herc. Fur. 697.—
2. To be stiff or rough from slovenliness or want of care; to be filthy, neglected, squalid: “squalenti Dido comā,Ov. F. 3, 640: “squalens barba,Verg. A. 2, 277: “crines squalent a pulvere effuso,Sil. 2, 452: “barba cruore,id. 10, 512: “vestes squalentes atro pulvere,Luc. 8, 37: “neque ego arma squalere situ ac rubigine velim, sed fulgorem inesse,Quint. 10, 1, 30; Gell. 9, 4, 2: “mihi supellex squalet atque aedes meae,Plaut. Pers. 4, 8, 2: “invidiae nigro squalentia tabo Tecta petit,Ov. M. 2, 760; cf. id. ib. 15, 627: “squalent abductis arva colonis,lie untilled, Verg. G. 1, 507; cf. 1. β, supra.—
II. Transf., to mourn in filthy or squalid garments (cf. sordes and sordidatus; “in Cic. only so): erat in luctu senatus: squalebat civitas publico consilio mutatā veste,Cic. Sest. 14, 32: “luget senatus, maeret equester ordo, tota civitas confecta senio est, squalent municipia, afflictantur coloniae,id. Mil. 8, 20. —P. a. as subst.: squālĕntĭa , ōrum, n., deserts, Plin. 5, 9, 10, § 52.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (23):
    • Cicero, For Milo, 8.20
    • Cicero, For Sestius, 14.32
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 15.627
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 2.760
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 10.314
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 2.277
    • Vergil, Georgics, 2.348
    • Vergil, Georgics, 4.13
    • Vergil, Georgics, 4.91
    • Vergil, Georgics, 1.507
    • Tacitus, Annales, 15.42
    • Plautus, Persa, 4.8
    • Lucan, Civil War, 4.755
    • Lucan, Civil War, 5.39
    • Lucan, Civil War, 8.37
    • Lucan, Civil War, 1.205
    • Lucan, Civil War, 9.503
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 5.52
    • Seneca, Hercules Furens, 697
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 10, 1.30
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 9.4.2
    • Ovid, Fasti, 3
    • Ovid, Fasti, 5
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