stumbling-block Copy link Outline 1. offensio2. offendĭcŭlum3. mŏra (hindrance)4. impĕdīmentum5. scandălum (a temptation) • stumbling-block: 1. offensio: no s., nihil offensionis, Cic. Tim. 6. 2. offendĭcŭlum: only found in Plin. 9, 11. 3. mŏra (hindrance): to be a s. in the way of his ending, etc., esse in mora quominus ... finiret, Liv. 30, 44. 4. impĕdīmentum: Caes. B. C. 3, 17. Join: mora et i., Liv. 23, 9. 5. scandălum (a temptation): Vulg. 1 Cor. i. 23: Tert.: or expr. by verbs labefacio, labefacto: v. overthrow.