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|lshtext=<b>frăgōsus</b>: a, um, adj. [[fragor]].<br /><b>I</b> (Acc. to [[fragor]], I.) Apt to be [[broken]], [[fragile]] ([[poet]]. and in [[post]]-Aug. [[prose]]).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Lit.: fragosa putri corpore, Lucr. 2, 860.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Transf., [[rough]], [[uneven]]: silvis [[horrentia]] saxa fragosis, Ov. M. 4, 778: [[mons]], Grat. Cyneg. 527. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Trop., of [[speech]], [[uneven]], [[unequal]]: fragosa [[atque]] interrupta [[oratio]], Quint. 9, 4, 7: aures fragosis offenduntur, id. 9, 4, 116: [[versus]], Diom. p. 499 P.—<br /><b>II</b> (Acc. to [[fragor]], II.) Crashing, [[rushing]], [[roaring]] ([[poet]].): medioque [[fragosus]] Dat sonitum saxis et [[torto]] vertice [[torrens]], Verg. A. 7, 566: vada, Val. Fl. 2, 622: arx Maleae, id. 4, 261: lux, a rattling [[gleam]] ([[lightning]]), id. 2, 198: murmura leonum, Claud. II. Cons. Stil. 337: [[nares]], Amm. 14, 6, 25.—Hence, * adv.: fră-gōse (acc. to II.), [[with]] a crashing: (secures a ligno laricis) respuuntur et fragosius sidunt, aegrius revelluntur, Plin. 16, 10, 19, § 47.
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