salebrosus

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

sălĕ_brōsus, a, um, adj. [salebra], full of joltings, rough, rugged, uneven (not anteAug.; cf.: confragosus, horridus, asper).

I Lit.: semita, Ap. Met. 8, 16, 18; furfures multo lapide, id. ib. 7, 15, 23.—

II Trop., of speech: resistens ac salebrosa oratio, Quint. 11, 2, 46: compositio Pollionis Asinii, Sen. Ep. 100, 7.—Of the writer himself: Sanctra, Mart. 11, 2, 7.

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