(adverb) : con-frăgōsus, a, um
* Adj., broken, rough, uneven (in good prose; cf. confragus; not in Cic.).
* 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.
* 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, : confrăgōsē, roughly, unevenly, Mar. Vict. p. 2550.

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