I.full of or covered with scales, scaly, squamous (poet. and in post - Aug. prose).
I. Lit.: “pecus (i. e. pisces),” Plaut. Rud. 4, 3, 5: “soleamne esse avis squamossas?” id. Men. 5, 5, 19: “draco,” Verg. G. 4, 408; cf.: “venter cerastae,” Prop. 3 (4), 22, 27. “orbes (anguis),” Ov. M. 3, 41: “greges (piscium),” Col. 8, 17, 2: agmina, Prud. στεφ. 5, 144: “belua,” Sen. Hippol. 1048: “pellis,” Claud. Laud. Stil. 1, 263.—
II. Transf.: “thorax,” Prud. Ham. 423: “smaragdi,” Plin. 37, 5, 18, § 72.— Poet.: “lingua,” stiff, rough, Luc. 4, 325.
