nōdōsus
nōdōsus, a, um, adj. nodus, full of knots, knotty (syn. geniculatus). Lit.: stipes, Ov. H. 10, 101: robur, Val. Fl. 8, 298: lina, nets, Ov. M. 3, 153; so, plagae, id. F. 6, 110: vitis, Juv. 8, 247: ossa, the bones of the neck, the cervical vertebræ, Luc. 8, 672: rami, Sen. Ep. 12, 1: fructus, Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 176: cheragra (so called from its producing blains and knots on the fingers), Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 31: podagra, Ov. P. 1, 3, 23.— Trop., knotty, intricate, difficult (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): quaestiones, Macr. S. 7, 1 med.—Sup.: nodosissimi libri enodati, Aug. Conf. 4, 16: Cicuta, familiar with the intricacies of the law, Hor. S. 2, 3, 69; so, nodosam exsolvite stipem, Val. Max. 2, 9, 1 (dub.).—Hence, adv.: nōdōsē, intricately, obscurely (post-class.); comp.: nodosius, Tert. Res. Carn. 46.
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