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Μὴ φῦναι τὸν ἅπαντα νικᾷ λόγον → Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.

Sophocles, Oedipus Coloneus l. 1225

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

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; App. M. 6, p. 187, 6: Pyrene, Grat. Cyn. 514: via, Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 82: ager, App. Flor. 2, p. 348, 20: per asperitates scruposas, Amm. 31, 8, 4.—*
II Trop., rough, hard, arduous: ratio, Lucr. 4, 523.