saetosus

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

saetōsus (sēt-), a, um, adj. [saeta],

full of coarse hairs or bristles , bristly , setous (mostly poet.; cf.: villosus, pilosus): aper, Verg. E. 7, 29; cf.: setosa membra (of the sailors of Ulysses, transformed into swine by Circe), Hor. Epod. 17, 15: aures tauri, Plin. 8, 45, 70, § 181: frons, Hor. S. 1, 5, 61; cf. pectus, Cels. 2, 8: verbera, made of goats’ hair , Prop. 4, 1, 25.

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