scăbĭes, em, ē, f. [scabo], a roughness, scurf.
I Lit.
A In gen. (very rare): ferri (with robigo), Verg. G. 2, 220 (cf.: scabra robigo pilorum, id. ib. 1, 495): mali, Juv. 5, 153: vetusta cariosae testae, filth , Ap. Met. 9, 7, 13; cf. Vulg. Lev. 13, 6.—
B In partic., as a disease, the scab , manage , itch , Cels. 5, 28, 16; Lucil. ap. Non. 160, 21; Cato R. R. 5, 7; Col. 6, 13, 1; 6, 31, 2; 7, 5, 5; Verg. G. 3, 441; Juv. 2, 80; 8, 34; Hor. A. P. 453 et saep.—Of plants, Plin. 17, 24, 37, § 225; 19, 10, 57, § 176; 31, 3, 21, § 33.—Scabies, the itch , personified and worshipped as a divinity , acc. to Prud. Ham. 220.—
II Trop. (acc. to I. B.), an itching , longing , pruriency (very rare): cujus (voluptatis) blanditiis corrupti, quae naturā bona sunt, quia dulcedine hac et scabie carent, non cernunt satis, * Cic. Leg. 1, 17, 47; so, scabies et contagia lucri, Hor. Ep. 1, 12, 14: nos hac a scabie (sc. rodendi, detrectandi) tenemus ungues, Mart. 5, 60, 11; so of lust , id. 6, 37, 4; 11, 7, 6.