scrūpōsus, a, um, adj. [scrupus].
I Lit., full of sharp or rough stones , jagged , rough , rugged (poet. and in post-class. prose): specus, Att. ap. Non. 223, 2; cf. saxa, Luc. 5, 675; Ap. Met. 6, 31, 24; Pyrene, Grat. Cyn. 514: via, Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 82: ager, Ap. Flor. 2, p. 348, 20: per asperitates scruposas, Amm. 31, 8, 4.—*
II Trop., rough , hard , arduous : ratio, Lucr. 4, 523.