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|lshtext=<b>scando</b>: (no<br /><b>I</b> perf. or [[sup]].; cf.: [[ascendo]], [[descendo]], etc.), 3, v. a. and n. Sanscr. [[root]] skand-, to [[climb]]; cf. Gr. [[σκάνδαλον]], [[σκανδάληθρον]]>.<br /><b>I</b> Act., to [[climb]], [[mount]], [[clamber]] or [[get]] up; to [[ascend]].<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Lit. ([[rare]] [[but]] [[class]].): cum alii malos scandant, alii per foros cursent, etc., * Cic. Sen. 6, 17: arcem et [[Capitolium]], Liv. 3, 68, 7; 4, 2 fin.; cf.: in curru [[Capitolium]] (of a [[triumphal]] [[entry]]), id. 45, 39: curru Capitolia, Luc. 9, 600: [[moenia]], Liv. 22, 14 Drak. N. cr.: muros, id. 5, 21: [[tectum]] scalis, Plin. 14, 1, 2, §9: equum, Verg. A. 2, 401: bracchia longa Theseae viae, Prop. 3 (4), 21, 24: [[cubile]], id. 4 (5), 4, 90: puppim, Val. Fl. 8, 8: cymbam (Charontis), Prop. 3, 18 (4, 17), 24 et saep.— In mal. [[part]]., Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 22.—Poet.: scandit [[fatalis]] [[machina]] muros, Verg. A. 2, 237.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Trop. ([[only]] in the poets and in [[late]] [[prose]]): [[paulatim]] [[gradus]] aetatis scandere adultae, Lucr. 2, 1123: scandit aeratas vitiosa naves Cura, Hor. C. 2, 16, 21.— Hence, in the grammarians: scandere [[versus]], qs. to [[climb]] up, i. e. to [[measure]] or [[read]] by its feet, to [[scan]]; cf. in a [[sarcastic]] [[double]] [[sense]], of a gouty [[person]]: scandere qui nescis, versiculos laceras, Claud. Epigr. 29, 2. —<br /><b>II</b> Neutr., to [[mount]], [[rise]], [[arise]], [[ascend]] (not freq. [[till]] [[after]] the Aug. [[period]]).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Lit.: cum scandit et instat, climbs the [[wall]], Lucr. 3, 651: scandenti [[circa]] ima [[labor]] est: [[ceterum]] [[quantum]] processeris, etc., Quint. 12, 10, 78: scandere in aggerem, Liv. 3, 67, 11: in domos superas, Ov. F. 1, 298: in adversum, Quint. 11, 3, 54: ad nidum [[volucris]] ([[feles]]), Phaedr. 2, 4, 6: per conjuncta aedificia, Tac. H. 3, 71: [[super]] iteratam testudinem, id. ib. 3, 28.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Transf., of things: scandentisque Asisi consurgit vertice [[murus]], Prop. 4 (5), 1, 125: in tecta jam silvae scandunt, Plin. 15, 14, 14, § 47: aquae in [[sublime]], id. 31, 1, 1, § 2: sol ad aquilonem, id. 18, 28, 68, § 264.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Trop.: [[timor]] et [[minae]] Scandunt [[eodem]], quo [[dominus]], Hor. C. 3, 1, 38: [[supra]] principem scandere, Tac. H. 4, 8.