nodosus

nōdōsus, a, um, adj. [nodus], full of knots, knotty (syn. geniculatus).

I.

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.—

II.

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.