scarus
ὁ χρόνος ἐστὶ δάνος, τὸ ζῆν πικρός ἐσθ' ὁ δανίσας → time is a loan, and he who lent you life is a hard creditor | time is on loan and life's lender is a prick
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
scărus: (scārus, Enn. ap. App. Mag. p. 299), i, m., = σκάρος,>
I scar, a kind of seafish much esteemed by the Romans; acc. to some, a species of wrasse: Labrus scarus, Linn.; Plin. 9, 17, 29, § 62; Ov. Hal. 9; 119; Col. 8, 16, 1 and 9; Enn. l. l.; Hor. S. 2, 2, 22; id. Epod. 2, 50; Mart. 13, 84; Fest. s. v. pollucere, p. 253: scarorum jocinora, Suet. Vit. 13.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
scărus,¹³ ī, m. (σκάρος), scare [poisson de mer] : Hor. S. 2, 2, 22 ; Plin. 9, 62.
Latin > German (Georges)
scarus, ī, m. (σκάρος), ein sehr schmackhafter Meerfisch, der gemeine Papageifisch, Enn. fr. var. 40 Vahlen. Plin. 9, 62. Hor. sat. 2, 2, 22. Cael. Aur. de morb. chron. 1, 1, 22: quattuor (IIII) scari (als Abbildung), Corp. inscr. Lat. 6, 9671. Curios. urb. reg. VIII: scarorum iocinora, Suet. Vit. 13, 2.
