(verb) : scando (no
* Perf. or sup.; cf.: ascendo, descendo, etc.), 3, and n. Sanscr. root skand-, to climb; cf. Gr. σκάνδαλον, σκανδάληθρον.
* Act., to climb, mount, clamber or get up; to ascend.
* Lit. (rare but class.): cum alii malos scandant, alii per foros cursent, etc., * Cic. Sen. 6, 17: arcem et Capitolium,Liv. 3, 68, 7; 4, 2 fin.; cf.: in curru Capitolium (of a triumphal entry),id. 45, 39: curru Capitolia,Luc. 9, 600: moenia,Liv. 22, 14 Drak. N. cr.: muros,id. 5, 21: tectum scalis,Plin. 14, 1, 2, §9: equum,Verg. A. 2, 401: bracchia longa Theseae viae,Prop. 3 (4), 21, 24. cubile,id. 4 (5), 4, 90: puppim,Val. Fl. 8, 8: cymbam (Charontis),Prop. 3, 18 (4, 17), 24 et saep.— In mal. part.,Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 22.—Poet.: scandit fatalis machina muros,Verg. A. 2, 237.
* Neutr., to mount, rise, arise, ascend (not freq. till after the Aug. period).
* Lit.: cum scandit et instat,climbs the wall,Lucr. 3, 651: scandenti circa ima labor est: ceterum quantum processeris, etc.,Quint. 12, 10, 78: scandere in aggerem,Liv. 3, 67, 11: in domos superas,Ov. F. 1, 298: in adversum,Quint. 11, 3, 54: ad nidum volucris (feles),Phaedr. 2, 4, 6: per conjuncta aedificia,Tac. H. 3, 71: super iteratam testudinem,id. ib. 3, 28.
* Transf., of things: scandentisque Asisi consurgit vertice murus,Prop. 4 (5), 1, 125.in tecta jam silvae scandunt,Plin. 15, 14, 14, § 47: aquae in sublime,id. 31, 1, 1, § 2: sol ad aquilonem,id. 18, 28, 68, § 264.
* Trop.: timor et minae Scandunt eodem, quo dominus,Hor. C. 3, 1, 38: supra principem scandere,Tac. H. 4, 8.