gravel Copy link Outline I. In ord. senseII. The disease so called • gravel: I. In ord. sense: glārea: Cic.: Liv. II. The disease so called: calcŭlus: Cels.
gravel (v.) Copy link Outline I. To cover with gravelII. Fig. (nearly obsol.) • gravel (v.): I. To cover with gravel: glaream injicio, 3: Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 2. II. Fig. (nearly obsol.): to reduce to difficulties: Phr.: aliquem disputationum laqueis irretitum tenere, in angustias adducere: v. to entangle, embarrass. In pass., haereo, si, sum, 2: he is fairly g.'d, haeret in salebra, Cic. Fin. 5, 28, 84: the rascal was g.'d, he knew not which way to turn, haerebat nebulo; quo se verteret non habebat, Cic. Ph. 2, 29, 74: now the fellow is fairly g.'d, nunc homo in medio luto est, Pl. Ps. 4, 2, 27.
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.