confragosus
τὸν αὐτὸν ἔρανον ἀποδοῦναι → pay him back in his own coin, repay him in his own coin, pay someone back in their own coin, pay back in someone's own coin, give tit for tat, pay back in kind
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
con-frăgōsus: a, um,
I adj., broken, rough, uneven (in good prose; cf. confragus; not in Cic.).
I Prop.: ager, Varr. R. R. 1, 18, 4: fundus, id. ib. 1, 20, 5: locus lapidibus, Col. 2, 2, 8; cf. id. 6, 17, 2; and Liv. 28, 2, 1; 32, 4, 4: via (together with ardua et aspera), id. 44, 3, 3; cf. Sen. Ep. 84, 13: angustiae, Liv. 38, 41, 5; 5, 26, 5.— Hence, subst.: confrăgōsum, i, n., a rough place or region: fortior miles ex confragoso venit, Sen. Ep. 51, 10: castra inter confragosa omnia locat, Liv. 21, 32, 9; 5, 26, 5.—Trop.: e confragosis atque asperis evecti, Quint. 6, 1, 52.—
II Trop. (several times in Plaut. and in Quint. like fragosus; elsewhere rare): condiciones, hard, difficult, Plaut. Men. 4, 2, 25; id. Cist. 2, 3, 70; with velut, Quint. 8, 5, 29: nomina quaedam versusque, id. 1, 1, 37: argumenta (together with horrida), id. 5, 8, 1.—* Comp., Mall. Theod. Metr. 7.—No sup.—Hence, adv.: confrăgōsē, roughly, unevenly, Mar. Vict. p. 2550.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
cōnfrăgōsus,¹⁴ a, um, (confringo),
1 âpre, inégal, raboteux, rude : confragosa loca Liv. 28, 2, 1, lieux d’accès difficile, cf. Cic. Fr. F 9, 17 || cōnfrăgōsum, ī, n., Sen. Ep. 51, 9, et cōnfrăgōsa, ōrum, n., Quint. 5, 8, 1, endroits, régions difficiles
2 [fig.] a) raboteux, inégal : versus confragosi Quint. 1, 1, 37, vers rocailleux ; b) embarrassant : condiciones confragosæ Pl. Men. 591, conditions embarrassantes || confragosior Mall. Th. p. 596, 3.
Latin > German (Georges)
cōn-fragōsus, a, um, holperig, uneben, I) eig.: ager, fundus, Varr.: loca, via, Liv.: rupes, Frontin.: locus lapidibus confragosus, Col. – neutr. subst. = eine holperige Stelle, unebene Gegend, creperi aliquid et confragosi, Sen.: fortior miles ex confragoso venit, Sen.: u. Plur. confragosa, Liv. u. Frontin. – II) übtr.: a) übh.: argumenta velut horrida et c., Quint.: versus velut c., Quint.: Compar., confragosius quiddam et durius, Mall. Theod. de metr. 7. – b) auf Schrauben gestellt, geschraubt, condiciones, Plaut. Men. 591: sed ego illud quaero confragosum, das ist mir zu hoch, Plaut. cist. 614.
