GRAVEL Copy link • GRAVEL 1. s. glarea: sabulo (coarse sand with large grains; fine gravel): full of gravel, or like gravel, glareosus (e.g., terra, Varr., arva, Col.): sabulosus (arva, loca). To put gravel on a road [Vid: To GRAVEL]. A gravel road, via glarea substructa. A disease, calculus arenosus (Cels., 7, 3): molles calculi et ex pluribus minutisque, sed inter se parum adstrictis compositi (ib.). Vid: STONE. 2. v. viam glarea substruere. To puzzle, aliquem in angustias adducere: in angustias pellere or compellere (general terms for to bring into difficulty): includere (= “to pin”): aliquem differre dictis suis (so that he will not know what to say; ☞ Ruhnken, Ter., And., 2, 4, 5): ☞ ad incitas redigere is prae- and post-classical: to be gravelled, in angustias adductum esse, in angustiis esse or versari.