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|lshtext=<b>nōdōsus</b>: a, um, adj. [[nodus]],<br /><b>I</b> [[full]] of knots, [[knotty]] (syn. [[geniculatus]]).<br /><b>I</b> Lit.: [[stipes]], Ov. H. 10, 101: [[robur]], Val. Fl. 8, 298: lina, nets, Ov. M. 3, 153; so, plagae, id. F. 6, 110: [[vitis]], Juv. 8, 247: ossa, the bones of the [[neck]], the [[cervical]] vertebræ, Luc. 8, 672: rami, Sen. Ep. 12, 1: [[fructus]], Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 176: [[cheragra]] (so called from its producing blains and knots on the fingers), Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 31: [[podagra]], Ov. P. 1, 3, 23.—<br /><b>II</b> Trop., [[knotty]], [[intricate]], [[difficult]] ([[poet]]. and in [[post]]-Aug. [[prose]]): quaestiones, Macr. S. 7, 1 med.—Sup.: nodosissimi libri enodati, Aug. Conf. 4, 16: [[Cicuta]], [[familiar]] [[with]] the intricacies of the [[law]], Hor. S. 2, 3, 69; so, nodosam exsolvite stipem, Val. Max. 2, 9, 1 (dub.).—Hence, adv.: nōdōsē, [[intricately]], [[obscurely]] ([[post]]-[[class]].); comp.: nodosius, Tert. Res. Carn. 46.