scabies

An Elementary Latin Dictionary

scabiēs em, ē, f

2 SCAP-, a roughness, scurf : ferri (with robigo), V.: mali, Iu.—As a disease, the scab, mange, itch, leprosy : turpis, V.: mala, H., Iu.—Fig., an itching, restless longing, unnatural excitement : dulcedine hac et scabie carent: scabies et contagia lucri, H.

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