I.rough, shaggy, hairy, bristly, prickly.
I. Lit. (poet. and in post-Aug. prose; “syn. v. hirtus): facies,” Hor. C. 4, 10, 5; cf. “frons,” Verg. A. 10, 210: “membra,” Juv. 2, 11: “corpus Nereïdum squamis,” Plin. 9, 5, 4, § 9: “mater (of a shegoat with young),” Mart. 3, 58, 37: “herba,” Plin. 22, 6, 7, § 17: agri, i. e. dirty, foul with rain, = squalidi, Hor. C. 2, 9, 2: “Eurus procellis,” Val. Fl. 1, 612.—Poet., per hypallagen: “sic hispida turpes Proelia villosis ineunt complexibus ursi,” Stat. Th. 6, 868.—*
II. Trop.: “agrestis auris ac hispida,” i. e. rude, insensible, Gell. 10, 3, 15.
