(verb) : scăbo, scābi (no
* Sup.), 3, root skap-, skamp; Gr. σκάπτω, to dig; κάπετος, ditch; Lat. scaber, scabies, to scratch, to scrape (syn. rado): caput, Lucil. ap. Non. 472, 6; Hor. S. 1, 10, 71: scaberat ut porcus contritis arbore costis, Lucil. ap. Prisc. p. 884 P.: aures pedibus posterioribus,Plin. 11, 48, 108, § 260: se,id. 8, 27, 41, § 99; 10, 74, 95, § 204: tellurem,id. 10, 71, 91, § 196: laminas (doliorum),id. 18, 26, 64, § 236.—Prov.: mutuum scabere,i. e. to praise one another,Symm. Ep. 1, 31 init.; Ennod. Ep. 1, 10.